No problem with 4.9 kernel in antiX-21

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I have written several times (recently here) about the serious problems I faced while using the 4.9 kernel in two old laptops, problems that forced me to use the 4.4 kernel, which is not supported anymore.
The good news is that no such problems seem to exist in antiX-21. The 4.9 kernel seems to work fine, at least as regards the one of the machines.

System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: <filter> BIOS: TOSHIBA 
  v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP arch: Netburst Northwood 
  rev: 7 cache: L2: 512 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5585 
  Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: Toshiba driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nouveau 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.2 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Toshiba driver: snd_intel8x0 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.5 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-294-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter vendor: Toshiba 
  driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 bus-ID: 02:09.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 802.11n [Atheros 
  AR9170] 
  type: USB driver: carl9170 bus-ID: 1-3:2 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 93.16 GiB used: 9.03 GiB (9.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1032GAX size: 93.16 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 89.65 GiB used: 9.03 GiB (10.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.5 GiB used: 280 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 75.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 119 Uptime: 31m Memory: 1000.4 MiB used: 382.9 MiB (38.3%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1288 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

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