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Topic: DSL 3.4 or DSL 4 with a 2.6.x kernel ?

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Key

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Posted: Aug. 02 2007,17:10

Now, as the first 2 alpha versions of DSL 4 have been released, there are probably more information from users available, who can't use DSL due to too new hardware which is still not supported in the current 2.4.x kernel.

Maybe there were users who thought, that a newer 2.4.x kernel could help. You know that there is a much newer 2.4.x kernel in DSL 4 than in DSL 3.4 was.
There has been much discussion about before there were the first DSL 4 alpha releases (with a new 2.4.x kernel).

How do the users think now?
Still problems with SATA or newer network card hardware?

There is some discussion in the " DSL-N " forum, as well is there a poll where can be voted.
But I assume, that not all people have seen this yet.

Maybe there is a chance that more people can use DSL for the first time (when they have a quite new computer) or again (when they have upgraded to a newer computer) ?

Unfortunately not much news yet in " DSL-N ".

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Posted: Aug. 02 2007,17:53

How about a little patience. Robert noted the lack of community interest in DSL-N and asked for help from those who want to see a second DSL version with a 2.6 kernel in the poll thread. So what are you doing to help? Did you volunteer to build a kernel? I downloaded 2.6.22.1 sources at 3:15 this morning. I don't know if I'm going to have time to mess with it between now and the end of this weekend.

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Posted: Aug. 02 2007,18:08

Unfortunately, I don't know much about Linux programming.
Sorry for my impatience.

But when Robert has asked for help or volunteers, I didn't see much response.
Therefore I thought to ask, if there is still a chance to get a kernel 2.6.x version.

Now I know that somebody is working on it.
Thank you.

lucky13

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Posted: Aug. 02 2007,23:17

The lack of response may or may not be telling about the general consensus of the community. Look at how few people have voted in the poll in the DSL-N section.

Regardless, it'll probably be some time after next week unless Robert or someone else has built a 2.6 kernel for DSL 4.

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Posted: Aug. 03 2007,05:52

For me, the big advantage of dsl-n is that various power-saving utilities work in 2.6.12 that do not work in 2.4.26 and thus my laptop lasts at least an hour longer between charges with dsl-n as compared to dsl. I had high hopes that the required functionality would have been backported to 2.4.34 (by the linux community), but it seems not...

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