[Asterisk-Users] FC3 or FC1 (or something else?)

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:34:44AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I presume you mean 2.4 and 2.6.
> 
> Six months ago the Stable release of Debian couldn't run 2.6 kernels 
> without installing a few updated packages from their backports.org 
> repository.  There has been a release since then that includes native 
> 2.6 support.

Six monthes ago Debian 3.1 was released. Let's forget ancient history
(Woody was released in 2002. Hmm... still a bit after XP).

BTW: Sid now has 1.2.1 packages for the braves among you. Expect a Sarge
backport this weekend.

> 
> There are many areas where 2.6 improves upon 2.4 from processor and 
> interrupt scalability to latency improvements.  I would recommend any 
> new server be installed with a 2.6 kernel unless there is some workload 
> that requires a specific 2.4 kernel.  I believe most of those were 
> removed with the 2.6.5 to 2.6.8 anonVMA changes by Andrea.

Right. Though "2.6" is kind of a moving target that keeps mutating

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