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Posted: Aug. 13 2007,20:52 QUOTE

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As I wanted to be up-to-date, I decided for a SATA-DVD-Rom which was nearly the same price as an ordinary IDE-DVD-Rom.

Maybe I will try to get the mouse running in DSL-N.

Although used for hardrives (SATA) , SATA-DVD's aren't used much and have a lot of compatibility issues. I'm sure it wouldn't work on my Windows 98 computer either.  Re mouses, I use a logitech USB mouse, given bizarre behavior with my mousepad.
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As I wanted to be up-to-date, I decided for a SATA-DVD-Rom which was nearly the same price as an ordinary IDE-DVD-Rom.

I disagree with the presumption that SATA is the only up-to-date option. I know SATA will eventually completely displace parallel ATA, but there will be continued legacy support for things that already work. There are still some things for Linux to iron out before I'd even consider it.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

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But what worries me is not only the old release candidate status but also the version 0.1.

Why would that worry you? It's just an arbitrary version number -- and in this 0.1 is more conservative than certain other distros calling their releases 2007.1, etc. Many of the apps I run are pre-1.0. Don't get hung up on a number if the product itself is stable, useful, usable, etc.

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Beside the fact that the onboard network card has not been recognized, the mouse was working without any problem.

What model Asus Pundit? What did you do to see if you could get it working? Or did you only rely on the autoconfig?

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I didn't fully understand it yet, what it would mean, if there would be two 3.4 versions, one with kernel 2.4.x and one with kernel 2.6.x.

Not 3.4, 4.0. I'm not sure yet if Robert wants to do that if 5.0 is going to be a full-on switch to 2.6 anyway. I mean, it could be done but that would mean DSL has this one and only version with two different kernels. It doesn't make sense to me do two versions of DSL 4.x since 5.0 isn't going to be off in the distant future. But maybe Robert wants more to deal with than he already has...


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Posted: Aug. 24 2007,01:27 QUOTE

Gosh, I didn't know there was a v4 out there, I'll have to check it out.  I wish I had time to help out over here, but I'm working 14+ hours a day now.  Love DSL.  My favorite OS ever... except for old Amiga, but that was over long ago    ???
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Posted: Aug. 24 2007,15:33 QUOTE

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Gosh, I didn't know there was a v4 out there, I'll have to check it out.  I wish I had time to help out over here, but I'm working 14+ hours a day now.  Love DSL.  My favorite OS ever... except for old Amiga, but that was over long ago    ???

A also remember the good old Amiga times.
These days, I saw somebody writing about "CLI", a word that was very common in the past, used for the Amiga-shell from the Workbench :)

But now we are in the year 2007 and hopefully somebody will make a new DSL with a 2.6.x kernel soon with much better support for newer hardware.
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Posted: Aug. 29 2007,03:42 QUOTE

I thought 2.6 is too big to make a nice distro to fit into 50 meg?
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