SuSE's Next Release Will Come With 2.4 Kernel - Updated

Several people wrote in to point out that SuSE appears to be the first big Linux vendor to have announced a distro to be shipped with the still-cute 2.4 Linux kernel as default. Here's their announcment in English, and in German. Since they'll also be including a 2.2 kernel "in parallel," this isn't totally earthshaking (some other distros have been shipping 2.2 stock and 2.4 optional for a little while), but it certainly is welcome news that SuSE is willing to reverse that order. Update: 01/26 05:04 PM by T : SuSE's Lenz Grimmer wrote to correct this, saying "Even though we ship with the 2.4 kernel, it is _not_ the default kernel, the user has to explicitly select the kernel during the installation." Thanks for the correction, Lenz.

Comments

Re:still-cute?

[fantom_winter]

Well, its sorta like a baby. After a while, a young kernel grows up and stops being cute. If your little 3 month old 2.4 angel dumps its core all over your kitchen floor, you probably won't be too angry, but if your teenage rebellious 2.4 does it, you're probably going to kick its ass.

Something like that.

Debian GNU/Linux and 2.4

[Netsnipe]

For those of you wondering how Debian GNU/Linux is coping with 2.4, then rest assured that the unstable branch (so called because of unrestricted version numbering related updates, not purely in stability terms), 'Sid' has suddenly received a lot of 2.4 compatibility testing. Though I'm not speaking as an official Debian developer yet (still waiting for my application to go through!), my friend (or friendly rival = P) from Debian Weekly News and Debian developer, Joey Hess has said publicly that the main source of problem with the 2.4 kernel for unstable at the moment "is devfs, and a number of bug reports have been filed on packages that need devfs support." The testing and the stable branches, on the other hand, will consequently need to have their modutils and related tools patched for better compatibility as indicated by this bug report. Even though the unstable tree isn't an official release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, be rest assured that many people do use it on a day-to-day basis on their own personal machines to keep up with the bleeding edge of Linux.

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