drinking the 2.6 kool-aide

There is a certian attitude some people I know have about the 2.4 kernel that I find really annoying. It's basically that it's obsolete, unsupported, not worth bothering with, should be dropped immediately, etc. And that's a reasonable position until you look at the sheer mass of machines out there that have not been able to upgrade to 2.6 yet, and the many places where all the new stuff (initramfs generators come to mind and so might udev) surrounding 2.6 is simply not ready for users. And the total lack of care that many of these same people have about providing any kind of reasonable upgrade path for 2.6.

Well, after trying each new 2.6 kernel on my fujitsu laptop as they came out over the years from 2.6.2 on, I've finally found one that seems usable on it as a replacement for 2.4. It's just passed the main smoke test of being able to suspend and resume while playing music and downloading a file without missing a beat (using apm; the apm vs acpi thing is much like the 2.4 vs 2.6 thing I mentioned above, except acpi is unlikly to work for anyone). I'm not sure it's the kernel itself that started working; my main problem before was disk access hanging on resume, and I've recently replacd my hard drive, and perhaps 2.6 only had problem with my old model of drive.

So anyway, it works for me, therefore it is perfect, so I can now without any qualms enter the ranks of the 2.4 snobs.