dslfool
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Posted: June 06 2006,06:13 |
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Bilal,
This is a conversation that's been had many times on this board. Rather than making up your mind that DSL will one day have a 2.6 kernel, I'd encourage you to read the board a bit more and learn why it still has a 2.4 kernel and why DSL-N exists.
Here's my understanding of DSL:
- It is planned to always be under 50MB.
- It is planned to always include a relatively complete set of desktop applications.
- It is planned to as much as possible support older hardware.
- For the reasons above it is planned to always use kernel 2.4.x.
That's why DSL-N was created: to provide a similar, small but relatively complete distro with kernel 2.6.x for better support of newer hardware. If it seems buggy, bear in mind that it is very new. DSL itself was once at this stage.
You can choose to wait for DSL to use kernel 2.6, but if I understand correctly, you'll be waiting a very long time (i.e., possibly forever). In that time you could be testing DSL-N and helping Robert and John determine what work needs to be done, or at the least you can simply wait for DSL-N, which has a 2.6 kernel right now, get better and more stable.
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DSL 4.2.5 (frugal toram)
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