On Tuesday 13 July 2004 21:11, David M wrote: > Hi > > Can I just at this point whole heartedly recommend debian - certainly the > so called unstable branch. I must admit that messing with lowlat and > preemptive patch has been messy. However after reading the last few days of > debate about the problems with the 2.6 kernel. I decided to try debian > stock 2.6.7 and i must admit that it seems to work as good -but probably > better than the 2.4ll+pre. This is of course using the LD_ASSUME stuff. > > One point though if somebody knows how to set global environment variables > that work within the point and click environment within kde (.profile > doesnt seem to work) I certainly would like to know. > > Dave Thanks to everyone who replied /etc/environment did the job Dave