stock kernels

This is a happy day, I'm finally using 2.6(.10) on my laptop and think the jump from 2.4 might finally stick this time. And I'm even using the stock Debian kernel there, which means I now admin only 4 or 5 machines with hand-built kernels, all either due to needing NFS root support or lacking physical access to upgrade boxen to the Debian kernels.

Even longrun stuff is working on my laptop, and although the debian kernel is not built specifically with crusoe optimisations, it's not bad, and is decidedly faster than 2.4 with optimisations.

Lately I can barely keep up with the security holes fixed in the Debian kernels, let alone rolling them into custom kernels of my own, so stock kernels are a very good thing.

Update: Of course I spoke too soon, what I had thought was a hang on apm suspend if usb storage was mounted seemed to be a random hang. Back to 2.4 again..