Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Ok, now to the real answer -- I've been running various 2.4 kernels
> since 2.4.7.  The kernels prior to 2.4.10 had some VM issues where it
> would swap more than it should.  I've been running 2.4.18 for a long
> time and haven't had any problems with it.
> 
> What's *wrong* with them, from a release perspective, is 
>     o   they are newer
>     o   they kept changing significantly during the early release
>             cycle (more like a devel kernel than a stable one)
>     o   they haven't had as much testing (stress, interoperability,
>             esoteric hardware)
>     o   the only thing *wrong* with a 2.2 kernel is it doesn't have
>             the new features in 2.4
>     o   new features surely mean new bugs to be worked out
> 
> From a *release perspective*, 2.2 is a safer decision than 2.4.  You
> wouldn't want woody to be uninstallable or have weird stability
> problems on people's machines, now would you?  Thus 2.2 is the default
> while 2.4 is still a choice for those who want it.

iptables is the only thing that force me use 2.4 family. Is it possible
to run iptables under 2.2 kernels?

-- 
Eduardo Gargiulo
ejg-debian @ ar.dyndns.org


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