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

[Homer Whittaker]

Austin (Ozz) Denyer wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
How badly am I going to mess up my vmlinuz-2.6.15-e7-amd64-generic under
UBuntu if I update to the latest ETCH version?
Do not know if I truly want to do it but just curious.
Homer
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