Comments on: Debian Etch Kernels

By: .bootstrap

.bootstrap — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:16:58 +0000

Installing Xen on Debian Etch 4.0…

Updated 10. May 2007
For a long time I have tested many different virtualization techniques; Xen, VMWare, and Microsoft VM. Until now I’m able to conclude that all of them are usable on my desktop machine, but both VMWare and Microsoft’s VM…

By: Penguin Droppings » Blog Archive » Upgrading Debian Stable (Etch) 4.0

Penguin Droppings » Blog Archive » Upgrading Debian Stable (Etch) 4.0 — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:29:43 +0000

[...] Finally, the machines of course could upgrade to a new kernel, and there is a good write up on differences between Sarge and Etch kernels here. A big difference is that you can’t be looking for ‘kernel-image’ anymore, you need to be looking for ‘linux-image’. Another important change is that the SMP kernel as a separate entity is no more. This is increasingly important to know with the prevalence of dual core machines.Â Actually I technically never did this upgrade, as on the first machine I did it on, the machine didn’t come back up with the 2.6.18 kernel, so I had to go back to the 2.6.8.Â I’ll have to look into this more when I have physical access to the machines, and I’ll be sure to post about what went wrong. [...]

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:44:58 +0000

Pistas sobre los Kernels en Debian…

Visto en linux-party (www.linux-party.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1248). Â¿QuÃ© cambios veremos en el lanzamiento estable de la siguiente versiÃ³n de Debian? Hay muchos cambios, y este artÃculo demostrarÃ¡ los que estÃ¡n relacio…

By: mvanbaak

mvanbaak — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:56:16 +0000

@alan: 2.6.18-3 is now default kernel for etch. The daily installer images already come with it and all my systems that use debian have been upgraded to 2.6.18-3 using aptitude.
So etch will have 2.6.18 for sure.

By: UNIX-WORLD NEWS : Debian Etch Kernels

UNIX-WORLD NEWS : Debian Etch Kernels — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:17:44 +0000

[...] Full story at http://www.ducea.com/2006/10/10/debian-etch-kernels/ [...]

By: blind

blind — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:17:24 +0000

I cant wait to be back on a debian system right now on my core 2 duo + intel 965 chipset im runnning vine linux.

cat /etc/issue

Vine Linux 4.0 (Latour)
Kernel 2.6.16-0vl60 on a 2-processor i686

as you can see they made all the nessesary back ported patches to support the combination c2d+965 I hope etch will have the same set. mainly the bigest issues have been the marvell ide chipset. and others have reported issues with the jmicron ide chipset.

By: eskimo’s place » Blog Archives » archie

eskimo’s place » Blog Archives » archie — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:42:16 +0000

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By: IzEBaLL

IzEBaLL — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:16:49 +0000

About 4. udev: I already have udev in Debian Sarge. The only problem of udev in Sarge is the old version which prevents using some newer kernel (I think >2.6.14?). So Etch has the newer version (see [1])

root@wintermute:~# uname -a
Linux wintermute 2.6.8-3-386 #1 Thu Sep 7 05:39:52 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
root@wintermute:~# ps auxw | grep udev
root 442 0.0 0.0 1492 68 ? S

[1] Debian â€” Debian Package Search Results
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=udev

By: mike

mike — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:21:02 +0000

Thanks for the pointer to the prior post, which I hadn’t seen. I found this post (‘Debian Etch Kernels’) via LXer, and hadn’t seen the prior post there. So, you’re now in my liferea feedlist.

By: alan

alan — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:01:28 +0000

etch will not release with 2.6.18. kernel has been frozen for a long time, hence the version in sid is unlikely to propagate to etch until release.

Robert: debian will start with 2.6.17 and cherry-pick patches from upstream if they are justified.