A Feature Tour of New Distribution Releases [LWN.net]

A Feature Tour of New Distribution Releases

Posted Oct 6, 2003 15:11 UTC (Mon) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987)
Parent article: A Feature Tour of New Distribution Releases

I believe it's still worth mentioning that SuSE is shipping a 2.6.0-test kernel with the 9.0 distibution as this also means they're shipping modutils etc. that are 2.6-ready.
I'm not completely sure but they also might be shipping additional graphics cards drivers with XFree86, as they've also uploaded a set of precompiled driver updates for their SuSE 8.2 XFree86, e.g. with support for Readeon IGP cards that weren't supported in vanilla XFree86 4.3.0
Hmm... And I believe the distros shipping KDE 3.1.4 might go well with the needs of lots of new users, who like having well-tested, more stable software. The sometimes a bit premature packaging of e.g. KDE 3.0 (dunno about GNOME 2.4 now) is geeky but might distract newbies if the packages might be too error-prone. Not everyone loves living on the edge of development as many of us do ;-)

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A Feature Tour of New Distribution Releases

Posted Oct 9, 2003 3:48 UTC (Thu) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]

I have tried Slackware 9.1 with a 2.6-test kernel, and it also works fine out of the
box, since it comes with the latest module-init-tools as well as the older tools for
backwards compatibility. It does not come with a 2.6 kernel, but the rest of the
system appears ready for it.