On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:58, Liam Bedford wrote:
> Out of interest, what's the recommended way to install a new kernel on
> Fedora, if it's not in fedora (say 2.4.24-ck1 or whatever)?
I don't know what the "recommended" way is,
but personally I just get the kernel from www.kernel.org and compile it.
Then I say "make modules_install; make install".
I'm completely baffled by the passion for downloading binary kernels.
I've always thought one of the nice things about Linux is that
it doesn't really matter which distribution you use,
because you can always compile and install the latest kernel,
and the kernel is what really matters.
Incidentally, this isn't a Fedora vs Debian issue,
as Fedora users seem to be passionately seeking binary kernels,
although judging from the fedora-list mailing list
this frequently doesn't meet expectations.
One minor disadvantage of these kernels
is that they are invariably too large to fit on a floppy.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
