Grok Mogger wrote: > Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of > silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and > security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the > kernel as it becomes available? Seems like it would make a lot of sense > to at least just keep adding drivers even if the rest of the kernel > remains frozen at 2.6.18 or whatever.
It seems the kernel fairy may indeed answer your wishes :-) The latest Debian Weekly News [1] mentions there are already tentative plans to add updated kernels to Etch during its lifecycle, specifically to add support for new hardware ... yay :-) [1] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/02/ See the section "Updates during the Etch Life Cycle". Cheers Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]