Debian 3.1 (sarge) has the 2.6.8 kernel available

Debian 3.1 (sarge) has the 2.6.8 kernel available

Posted Jun 1, 2006 16:31 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Ubuntu on a server, eh? by cventers
Parent article: Ubuntu Dapper and the distribution business

I would base a decision about whether to pick Debian or Ubuntu based on two factors.

1. The support status of the software I wanted to run. Software in Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper)'s 'main' section will be supported for 3-5 years. Updates for software in 'universe' are not guaranteed. By contrast, all of Debian's packages will be supported for one stable release cycle + 18 months.

2. Ease of installation. Sarge was released 18 months ago, and it sometimes tricky to install it on recent hardware. Booting the installer with 'linux26' will help; this causes a 2.6.8 kernel to be installed instead of the default 2.4.27[0]. If you need something more recent than 2.6.8, you could try the image available from http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2615.htm; this is the sarge installer with a 2.6.15 kernel.

[0] To install the kernel on a running system, install one of kernel-image-2.6-686 or kernel-image-2.6-k7 depending on whether you have an Intel or AMD processor. 'apt-cache search' is your friend. ;) Packages of more recent kernels are available from http://backports.org/.

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