--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:30:23PM -0800, Peter > Farley wrote: > > > > "Bleeding edge technology"?!?! I bought the Dell > > 8400 as-is and used (from the Dell bargain area) > > over two years ago. "Bleeding edge" it ain't. > > > As Andrew pointed out, Etch is going to release > anytime now and has been in freeze for a few > months. Calling it bleeding edge is not correct.
Well, OK, maybe Etch isn't "bleeding edge" either. Mea culpa. > > C'mon, a simple old system like a Dell 8400 should > > be long-since supported by stable code, even among > > the volunteer community. > > > Well, the 2.6.8 kernel (shipped with Sarge) was > released on 14 August 2004. At *that* time, the > machine was bleeding edge compared to the > kernel support for SATA. Hm-m. OK, I didn't realize Sarge went back that far. Now that I review the Sarge package versions for some things that are important to me, I bow to your collective wisdom -- Sarge is not what I want or need. Thanks for your help in curing my ignorance. Peter ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
