Woohooo! 
I suppose that makes sense. 
Allthough your post is not very enlightening (:P), I would dare to ask, if by any chance it means, that you have installed the latest 2.6 kernel on your box⌠
Please reply, because I have a few questions to ask you about itâŚ
Makes me want to switch to Debian. Iâve been threatening myself to do just that for a long time it seems. I so appreciate point and click but that makes me lazy I suppose.
You fool!..Itâs not the latest, itâs the official non-beta superduper version!!! 
Eric,
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Itâs probably still full 'a bugs tho⌠not that I would notice or anything⌠as far as Iâm concerned 2.4 holds plenty for my blending 
Yeah and itâs awesome!
It does have some pretty essential security updates. If youâll recall the Debian servers were recently hacked. This version includes the fix.
i have to agree that 2.6 sounds more and more tempting from day to day âŚbut i like my kernel 100% stable âŚwhile 2.6 for now can cause troubles âŚstill waiting to see vanilla-2.6.x get an unmasked ebuild
but yea, 2.6 is supposed to be an ultra-kick-ass kernel
i will probably get it, just so i can listen to music better
Alltaken
I certainly am a fool, cause yesterday I got an âitch in my handsâ (:P) and wanted to try this diabolic thing⌠
So I downloaded the 2.6.0 kernel and installed it⌠It seems nice, except from the fact, that I get a couple of errors during boot⌠The weird thing is, that the modules that are supposed it canât find, Iâm pretty sure that I enabled them during configuration (I doublechecked itâŚ) and they are installed in /lib/modules/2.6.0⌠Also it canât initialize iptables, ALSA and some other stuff⌠Apart from these, everything else seems to be working o.k. (for the momentâŚ)
Boy!!! I sure am pretty good when it comes to trashing computers⌠lol
Anyway, I donât know if this is because of bugs in the kernel, or I simply need to upgrade some packagesâŚ
Maybe Iâll try a few more things (when I find timeâŚ) and let you knowâŚ
Youâre not fooling me you mole! You just wanna find some way to trash the penguin!
what Iâm interested on hearing from you, or anyone that testdrives this, is the ALSA better now than OSS⌠by better I mean mostly is it faster in blender, when you do scrubbing or videoediting in sequencer⌠I always have had problems with sounds⌠they tend to get really slow. also, in some videoedtiors I cannot use sound at all (like cinelerra) it just ⌠doesnât follow the video.
thatâs a bit annoying, and I have thought (and hoped) that itâs partially because of the old sound system linux has⌠so⌠I have waited that ALSA would fix this.
how is it?
.b
Eric, Sorry for the double post??? Must be getting senile
Hmmmmm my question is, is this suposed to be in jest with the winky or are you being serious.
first off i havnât actually trashed the penguin. i have trashed linux LOL.
however i have done so out of frustration as i am perfectly happy to use Liunx i have no problems with it, and infact favour open source to microsoft.
however so far linux has not done what i need it too, or not done it easily.
i installed a fresh pretty much default Mandrake 9.2 and guess what the Nvidia drivers refuse to install. :S stupid somthing in that mix somewhere.
the drivers should be able to install no problem. missing kernal headers and no interface for kernal messages blah blah blah. kernal is version 2.4.22 i believe.
anyway the point is so far it hasnât worked for me, i havnât yet given up and am prepared to try and fix it.
but seriously its not linux that bothers me its stupid linux fanboys that are like OMG linux is the best, it is better than every single OS out there, i mean its better than winblows and microgay, and stupid bill gatesâŚ
i have no suport for microsoft infact i hate them, but so many linux fanboys get the two confused, and claim that windows is instantly crap because they donât like bill.
so if i have ever sounded like i love him well frankly tis to piss off linux fanboys who want to be pissed off.
only microsoft product i use is Windows XP and MSN, nothing else, not even IE or WMP or anything.
so far linux doesnât cut it for me personally, partially becasue i donât know everything that i am doing, but partially because of the linux suport for hardware not being automatic, having to manually tell the OS what hardware you have and what settings it can handle seems a little silly IMO.
however i hear that the new 2.6 kernal will remedy many of these issues.
hopefully it will help bring linux to the actual desktop market rather than the geek desktop market.
2.4 was the first accessable desktop linux kernal (by what the link tells me), and 2.6 will hopefully take that one step further.
included ALSA is very important, as OSS is out of date
LOL if you get offended by my speak then you are too linux fanboyish LOL.
like if someone complains about blender not having proper raytracing capabilitys and N-gons etc⌠or not being easy to use in a certain area i wnât go around saying that its so good and that stuff doesnât matter, i will simply say, âyeah i know, but it is getting betterâ
Alltaken
a thousand pardons Master Alltaken. It really was a wink as in I figured turn around was fair play but alas you wouldnât expect such things from an old cogy wizard/hermit. I meant no harm whatsoever. Your previous post with regards to your motives was quite clear and comprehended. I did manage to get a rise out of you though
Timonides: I guess you need module-init-tools instead of modutils for 2.4. if running debian, just apt-get install module-init-tools.
there are places like this elaborate on the details.
homebody, I really want to try debian again. I installed woody quite a while back but really got hung on the way. I know I need to wean from Red Hat but itâs so blasted easy :o Do you run debian and howâs it with blender?