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Could you please expand on your "For me it worked" statement? Have you experienced any issues, even minor ones, with standard services like Samba, Apache, Postfix, etc..

There are basic configurations for debian, but with knowledge on SuSE you will be able to configure it to your delight. There where no compliling problems (even without gcc 2.95 rc2 :-) ). You can make a cloneconfig with renaming the old Makefile and copying the Makefile from the SuSE - sources. After make cloneconfig you have to copy the original Makefile back again where it belonged. After that make dep bzImage modules modules_install install && /sbin/lilo (if you use lilo).

Forgot to say you need 2.4.24 kernel from www.kernel.org :-) Philippe