"MEPIS has announced the release of beta 04 of ProMEPIS Linux, based on Linux kernel 2.6.10. The new kernel adds 'many hardware and performance improvements, yet it comes at a price,' according to MEPIS developer Warren Woodford. What price?
"'MEPIS was slow to introduce a newer kernel due to instabilities caused by restrictive policy and code changes introduced by the kernel team after 2.6.7,' Woodford says..."