[rescue] Re: G5 case

[Eric Dittman]

> > The problem with the unchangingness of Debian stable is
> > everything is so out of date that unless you start upgrading
> > everything you miss a lot of features.  I install Debian
> > stable and did a dist-update to the latest unstable and found
> > I still had the old, slow 2.2 kernel.
> 
> Part of that is Debian supports a bunch of architectures...
> and supporting anything other than x86 in 2.4 or beyond is passe.

There is support for systems other than x86 in 2.4,
and most of them are actively maintained, so I don't
know where you got that idea.

> And 2.4 has taken a while to become really stable...

Yes, and it has been stable for a long time.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net