Debian Niches was [Gllug] Traceroute query

[Martin A. Brooks]

Hi Bruce,

On Monday, May 31, 2004, Bruce Richardson wrote:

>> Debian aims for a vanilla kernel. I believe (but I'm not 100% sure)
>> that the 2.4 and 2.6 installation kernels are just so.

> Then you are mistaken.  Check the contents of any of the
> kernel-patch-debian-X.X.XX packages.  Or just do a simple web search for
> the various flame wars in the developer lists about the wisdom of such
> backports to 2.4 from 2.5/2.6 as the IPSec patch.

As I understand it, the patches are to remove "non-free" drivers and
the such like.  After installing Debian, the next thing I do is
download a vanilla kernel and compile/install it hence my lack of
certainty on the point.

Regards

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