On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:56:37AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > > It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer > > > than about 2 years old. > > > > It would be helpful if people wouldn't make sweeping generalizations all the > > time. Only a part of the new machines are made with hardware that needs > > particularly special drivers, there's plenty of it that works fine. > > Sure, as long as I didn't need the network interface or access to all my hard > drives 2.2 would have been fine.
Hey, I installed a machine recently that had a set of network cards that didn't work with our bf24 kernel. Just as I was about to mumble something about Debian, it turned out that the driver isn't in 2.4.22 either. I'm not particularly bothered, workarounds are a fact of life. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.