On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Madel, Kurt wrote: > Hello, > > For those of you using Potato, I was wondering how unstable it is. I have a > Zip Plus drive and know that it is naturally supported by the 2.2.X kernel, > so would like to move to a 2.2.X distribution as soon as possible and would > like to use Debian because I believe in freedom.
The version number of potato has nothing to do with the version numbers of kernels. You may have noticed S.u.S.e has released version 6.0 of their distribution, and RedHat is gearing up to release 6.0 as well. Slackware is at 3.something, etc. I've been running kernel 2.2.6 for as long as it has been released on my slink system. I needed to upgrade a couple packages (I don't remember which, but www.linuxhq.com had the list). That said, potato has been fairly stable for me at work. The only thing that I have a beef with is DDD doesn't run well here (segfaults) but it runs beautifully at home. I have attributed this to the glibc2 vs. glibc2.1 difference in the distributions and so have steered clear of glibc2.1 at home where I need DDD (at least I really want it). I hope this has answered your questions. -Dano