On 14 Nov 2001, John Scott wrote:
Kernels 2.4.10 and later are much faster and secure.
Yes, completely true, but I would recommend going with the latest stable kernel release (i.e. 2.4.14) because there are no advantages to anything before it. Anything before 2.4.14 had a rather low performing VM and anything before 2.4.6 had a shitty VM (which corrupted by partition, oh, around 6 times). To Jon, the original poster: There are a few reasons to upgrade: 1. Increased stability, speed, etc. 2. Bug fixes (related to [1] or security related) 3. Support for more hardware (if you need it) 4. Shits and giggles I would update my kernel in the days of 2.2.X for reason [4]. Now with 2.4.X, however, I am forced to upgrade because of [1] and [2]. You'd think that at 2.4.14, things would settle down. The VM just friggin' switched... -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0