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Sorry, I din't find it in the changelog. I was searching for something along the lines of sata_via or 8237a, there was no mention of it. I'm glad that it's there, thanks. Too bad 2.6.18 won't make it into Edgy Eft :/

The driver issue with Linux nowadays seems to be WiFi support and form what I've read BSD are far ahead.

You can always switch to Fedora and get even the latest kernel updates within days of new releases. ;-)

WiFi works way better in Linux with Red Hat's work on HAL, D-Bus and Network Manager. John W. Linville, upstream wireless kernel subsystem maintainer has a branch in Fedora which tracks the latest wireless updates

http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=965

The Linux kernel supports more architectures and drivers that any other operating system in the world according to http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html

Yeah. <irony>You just have to find out what patchset, or third party kernel branch, and find some userland that works properly with it.</irony> I have nothing against Linux, but Linux portability is nothing like portability of NetBSD or OpenBSD. E.g. in NetBSD one can build the system (kernel + userlands) for arbitrary platforms with a single command, from a single source tree.

"E.g. in NetBSD one can build the system (kernel + userlands) for arbitrary platforms with a single command, from a single source tree."

And I second that!