[NCLUG] Fragile flies with broken wings

dmiles dmiles at holly.colostate.edu
Mon Oct 29 21:52:13 MST 2001


My experiance is that potato is so incredibly old that it doesn't even support newer hardware. It had a lot of trouble with my P3 and I never did get my sound card up and running... I had to go to woody for that.

BTW, anybody knwo where I can get some woody ISO's?

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 04:46:21 +0000, Matthew Wilcox <willy at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:13:09PM -0800, dmiles wrote:
> > To tell you the truth I'm not sure WHY they even have
> > potato, it's SO old...
> 
> Old is stable.  There are still people running (and maintaining) the
> Linux 2.0 kernel.  That said, it would make a lot of sense to do more
> frequent releases, and it is something we're planning.  How well that
> will work remains to be seen.
> 
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