debian question

--- Bob George <mailings01@ttlexceeded.com> wrote:
> "bob smith" <sekretskwerl@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been looking around the debian site at the
> > different releases (stable, testing, and unstable)
> but
> > I'm a little confused about what kernels are
> included.
> > It seems that the 2.2r5 or Joel Klecker release
> > contains the 2.2.19 kernel. Does this mean that
> you
> > then should go to a site such as kernel.org and
> > download 2.4.18?
>
> Assuming you've got apt set up, you can update to a
> newer pre-built kernel
> via "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686" (or
> whatever you prefer). To
> see what's available, you can do "apt-cache search
> kernel-image".
>
> If you're after source, you can do "apt-get install
> kernel-source-<version>"
> if you like. Of course, you can download the latest
> from kernel.org and
> build it from there as well.
>
> I only recently realized that using a .deb puts the
> "working" .config in
> /boot (i.e. /boot/config-24.18-686) if you want to
> use that as a basis for
> kernel tweaking. I wish I'd known that a couple of
> months ago when trying to
> figure out what was required to get VLAN support
> working!
>
> - Bob
> ("unstable")

Oh ok, thanks Bob. After reading about Gentoo (see
Gontrans post) I think I want to try that out before Debian.

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