Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Colin Watson [Thu, Jul 03 2003, 02:44:18PM]: When you see bf2.4 in a kernel package's version number, it indicates the fairly stripped-down kernel that's installed by default when you Sorry, stripped-down is just wrong wording here. It has more drivers that the actuall

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 03 July 2003 15:16, Duane Winner wrote: Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is all about? The bf2.4 is a 2.4 kernel that's built for compatibility so it can be used on install- and rescue-disks on a wide variety of

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Duane Winner
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 09:45, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 15:16, Duane Winner wrote: Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is all about? The bf2.4 is a 2.4 kernel that's built for compatibility so it can be used on

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 03 July 2003 16:02, Duane Winner wrote: Sorry to be a pest, but what optimizations am I missing? Well, some processors can do stuff others can't. Basically, for Intel architectures, the smallest common set is the i386. This does not use any improvements made to the command set

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:16:03AM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: I'm relatively new to Debian, and have had pretty good success with it so far, but am trying to become more knowledgable about it. Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:16:03AM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: I'm relatively new to Debian, and have had pretty good success with it so far, but am trying to become more knowledgable about it. Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is all about? Not somebody, something. apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 Why is it called bf2.4? Some people claimed it to be Big Fscking, but it means just Boot Floppy

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-03 Thread Vctor Zabalza
Duane Winner wrote: But until I reach that point (compiling kernel), is there a better stable kernel I might want to install? There are the kernel-image-* packages for each of the architectures supported. I think there are images in sid for the 2.4.21 kernel. They provide a binary pre-compiled