[Leaplist] Is there any way to tell...

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:27:33 -0500, ray <ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com>
wrote:

> Austin (Ozz) Denyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:56:10 -0500, ray <ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com>
> > wrote:
> >   
> >> I have been waiting for Debian 4.0 to be released, but as that project 
> >> is delayed for one reason or an other, please do not bother going into 
> >> that, I am looking to install FC6 or OpenSuSe, yeah yeah yeah i hear ya 
> >> about the MS contract, but if it works, it bloody works.  I would prefer 
> >> Debian, but do not want to mess with changing the repositories again and 
> >> again over the next few months while waiting for 4.0 to be released.
> >>     
> >
> > You shouldn't need to keep changing repositories.  If you want 4.0 then
> > set your sources.list to point to Etch instead of Testing.  At the
> > moment Etch and Testing are one and the same, but when Etch officially
> > becomes the new Stable, your sources.list will still be correct.  For
> > those who don't know, once Etch is the new Stable, Testing will be
> > called Lenny.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ozz.
> >
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> so etch is currently using the 2.6.18 kernel and is the first debian 
> fully 64bit distro?

Yep.  Check this out:

Athlon64:/# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 -t etch -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  linux-doc-2.6.18
The following NEW packages will be installed
  linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 223 not upgraded.
Inst linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 (2.6.18-8 Debian:unstable)
Conf linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 (2.6.18-8 Debian:unstable)
Athlon64:/# 

(Note - I'm running 2.6.17-2 here right now due to a hardware
conflict.  My dual-Opteron is fine on 2.6.18-3.)

Regards,
Ozz.

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