On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:09 +0100, luxxius wrote: > After a Dapper > Edgy > Feisty upgrade on my old Dell Inspiron laptop, I > had a problem with very slow booting, as described in > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/8390. (This looks like a > bug in kernel 2.6.20 that's gone on for a while.) I fixed it by editing > grub to default to kernel 2.6.17, which works fine. > > What I'm wondering is how the kernel versions relate to the Ubuntu > releases. Specifically, my resources.list file still refers to feisty > repositories. Now that I've downgraded my laptop to 2.6.17-11 (IIRC), > will this matter, or do I need to change it to ?Edgy repositories? > > Sorry if this is a stupid question with a dead obvious answer! > As long as the first 2 digits (2.6) are the same, everything should still run fine. No new features will be added to the kernel until 2.7, which I expect is a long way off. -- Alec Wright
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