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Author: Mario Marietto
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To: Antony Stone
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Subject: Re: [DNG] [rrq@mail.rrq.id.au: Re: Devuan armhf / armel for my Samsung / Google Chromebook model XE303C12 "Snow" ?]
Usually I prefer to learn by doing. And yes,during the installation of
jessie I've seen "linux-image-3.16",so finally it's the right version.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:40 PM Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone@???> wrote:

> On Thursday 22 June 2023 at 20:58:11, Mario Marietto wrote:
>
> > ---> Ascii was released in 2018
> >
> > ---> Beowulf was released in 2020
> >
> > only two years of difference. I expected kernel 3.x on ascii,but I didn't
> > find it. If I don't get wrong both have the kernel 4.x. So I should
> install
> > jessie instead of Ascii,otherwise the risk is that devuan won't boot on
> my
> > old ARM chromebook. Does Jessie have kernel 3.x ?
>
> 1. Yes.
>
> 2. If you're not sure whether a certain version will work on your
> hardware,
> you do not have to install it - you can boot from the installation media
> and
> go into rescue mode, which will then let you run commands and find out
> whether
> the basics work. You can't run a full desktop GUI like that, but it'll
> certainly tell you whether the kernel likes your hardware (or vice versa).
>
> 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history combined with
> https://www.devuan.org/os/releases enables you to work out which Devuan
> version corresonds to which Debian version, which kernel that includes,
> and
> when the release went obsolete.
>
>
> Antony.
>
> --
> I bought a book on memory techniques, but I've forgotten where I put it.
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Mario.