On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:20:14AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno gio, 09-06-2005 alle 19:06 +0200, Frans Pop ha scritto: > > On Thursday 09 June 2005 18:45, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Jun 09, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dropping 2.4 can easily be done on relatively short notice prior to > > > > etch release, so no need to worry about now. > > > > > > It would be too late, because at that time we would have wasted a > > > couple of years trying to support them. > > > This kind of decision should be taken early in the development cycle. > > > > Making the decision early would also help d-i development as we could then > > start cleaning e.g. keyboard selection (and console-data). > > Being able to rely on sysfs being present would also simplify hardware > > detection in some cases. > > Right, this would really simplify d-i development. My personal opinion > is that 2.6.8 isn't enought mature to be used on server installation > with multidisk, lvm and XFS. > But, when Etch will be released, we will probably have 2.6.25 or such > available. I think, in this case, 2.6 could really be offered as a > complete replacement for 2.4.
2.6.25?! The current release pace for the 2.6-kernel is somewhere along 2-3 months / kernel. The kernel version now is 2.6.11, but 2.6.12 is out any day now, hopefully. Unless there are some radical changes, there won't be more than 6-8 new kernels released 18 months from now. So we're more looking at 2.6.20. I totally agree about goes 2.6.xx full out, however. 2.6.11 is already pretty stable, 2.6.12 promise to be even more so. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]