[SGVLUG] Time to boot getting longer with Debian

Fri Apr 21 00:47:03 PDT 2006

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David Lawyer <dave at lafn.org> writes:

> I just installed kernel 2.6.15 ...

> I could just revert to 2.6.12 but 2.6.15 in Debian has improved in
> some ways:  It's complied for a 486 instead of a 386 (2.6.12).  Also
> it doesn't load nearly as many unused modules like 2.6.12 did.

What's surprising to me about this is that Debian does not seem now to
have a kernel-source-2.6.x package for any x greater than 8.  In fact,
I recently reverted from 2.6.11 to 2.6.8 for new compiles just because
of this.  But your question provoked me to look at Debian pre-compiled
kernels and sure enough, they go all the way up to 2.6.16.

What's going on here?  What am I missing?  It looked to me like Debian
had recoiled from 2.6.11, presumably because of some trouble.

What's a good mailing list to be on to stay abreast of things like
this?

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