[mythtv] Re:Dev environment

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 04:29:59PM -0800, Jim Radford wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:05:29PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:13:04PM -0800, Jim Radford wrote:
> > > latest kernel (or even the one from rawhide).  As for debian, they
> > > are in the dark ages as far as kernels go, so you'll have to build
> > > your own.
> 
> > stable: 2.4.18
> > unstable: 2.4.20
> 
> > Dark ages?
> 
> :-) I stand corrected.  I've been disconnected for a month and "back
> then" I could only find 2.4.18 in debian (even in unstable) whereas
> RedHat had essentially 2.4.19-acX which had most of the fixes I
> needed.

Debian 3.0 shipped with kernel 2.4.18 when it was first released, July 19th
2002.  The installation media boot a 2.2 kernel by default, unless a 2.4
kernel is requested from the syslinux prompt, in which case you get 2.4.18
from the beginning.  This is usually when people's eyes bug out and they
don't realize that 2.4 is available (because they press enter without
reading the screenful of instructions ;-)).  In either case, 2.4.18 can be
installed and used at any time after the installation.

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 - mdz