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RE: [PLUG] Debian Question
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potato is 2.2.x based... Debian has a long period of time between releases,
so when the new one is even in the later stages of being unstable, the old
one is far out of date. You can download potato now using apt if you want.
if 2.4 is done soon, potato might be based on that... maybe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Tony Dominello
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 4:06 AM
> To: Plug List
> Subject: [PLUG] Debian Question
>
>
> I recently decided to try Debian to add to my repertoire and experience
> with distros (along with RedHat, Caldera, Corel, Mandrake, Suse, and
> OpenBSD). I noticed that the version I ws using (Slink) was based on
> the 2.0.x kernel.
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> I know there are a lot of Debian heads on the list so maybe someone
> could tell me why this was so? Will Potato be 2.2.x-based? What's the
> deal?
>
> The reason I'm asking, BTW, it that one of the reasons I was looking
> into it was for my firewall. I now have two systems on my firewall (a
> stripped-down RedHat and OpenBSD, the latter I will write a report on
> soon), so I'm already dealing with two firewalling techniques (ipchains
> on RH and NAT/IPF on OpenBSD) and didn't want to add a third (ipfwadm)
> to the mix.
>
> Thanx!
>
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