Re: Distributions vs kernel development

[Daniel Egger]

On 07.05.2004, at 18:22, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> Testing is very solid too, has 2.6 support out of the box, and more 
> updated
> desktop stuff (I run that on my laptop). Unstable seems more stable 
> than most
> vendors shipped distros to me, but changes more rapidly. They also 
> seem to
> break serial console occasionally in unstable by loading fonts into it
> (idiots!), but that's trivial to fix.

I'm running Debian stable, Debian stable/testing (mix) and Debian 
unstable
with both customized 2.4 and 2.6 as well as stock 2.4 and 2.6 kernels
without any sign of problems. Of course lm-sensors on top of a stock 2.4
kernel will not fly but everything else works quite fine.

I might also add that I can test quite a few combinations because many
of my machines are netbooting and thus picking up a different version
is a easy as relinking a directory and this always needs a selfcompiled
kernel because of the nfsroot and ip autoconfiguration settings. The
downside is that I needed to make slight modifications to the systems
to have partly separated temp dirs without the need for one complete
installation per machine.

Servus,
      Daniel

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