[nzlug] machine pre loaded with linux

[Denise Bates]

Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>>> http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=343149
> 
> Well thay can't be serious with operating system "Linux kernel 2.4" (do
> they have anything on top of that long-obsoleted kernel?), but it
> suggests it's Linux compatible. Like so many other HP, Dell, IBM boxes
> too.

2.4 kernel "obsoleted"?? But it is still being regularly updated!! It is 
also still the default kernel for Slackware (I use the 2.6 "testing" 
option, but I accept that Pat Volkerding knows what he is doing).

regards,
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