On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:42:11PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:52:32AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > > > 1. Linux 2.6.0? > > Not released yet. Yes, it has a _lot_ of nice features, but it is beta > software..
It (or patches to 2.4.22) is also needed if you decide to buy a modern machine right now. I've had to dig up an old plain IDE disk to stage a Linux install to my dual SATA drives in my new machine. Otherwise the beta installer worked fine. The strange thing with SATA support is that I couldn't get the modules in debian's 2.6.0-test9 kernel to recognize my drives, but a self compiled 2.6.0-test9-bk19 kernel with the SATA drivers (for promise and via) compiled in did work. -- Bart.