Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote: > > Anybody notice the abundance of people holding on and still patching the > older 2.2 kernels? I've been rather curious about this for a while -- didn't > say much about it because I thought it was a fluke or something. Isn't the > existance of the 2.4 kernels saying that the experimental 2.3 kernels have > reached a stable version? > ------------ 1. I think that the slowly developing information on iptables has lessened peoples enthusiasm for using it as a router but I see that situation changing 2. Many of the newer hardware devices were back ported - USB for example to the late 2.2-x kernels 3. A lot of the maturing stuff of interest... - Samba 2.2x - KDE 2.2 - Koffice 1.1 <--- Kurt this is August 15th ;-) etc will undoubtedly need newer versions of the various libraries which will push people wanting to use them to upgrade. ---- btw - has everyone seen this story about Largo FL? Seems south Florida has found other outlets for their energy other than counting hanging chads. Craig