On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 07:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:24:32PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > >
> > > A user without a clue should better be using a supported distribution.
> > > If he used Fedora Core2 instead of the totally outdated and unsupported
> > > RH9 he'd already have a kernel with i915 support on his disk.
> > 
> > What about Debian? they would have a 2.4 kernel.. is Debian not supported,
> > no-one told me...
> 
> Due to the policies of the release manager Debian stable is a totalally lost
> cause.  It's missing all other support bits for i915 plattforms aswell.
> 

Wrong and wrong.  If you run Debian unstable (which is WAY more stable
than, say, FC2) then you can apt-get upgrade to the latest kernel.

What policies are you referring to?  That Debian won't ship with
showstopper, data-destroying bugs due to pressure to make a release
date?

Lee



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