I've spent the last 3 days trying to build and install a working 2.4.17 kernel. Just this morning I downloaded the cooker 2.4.17-8mdk kernel source and tried building it - they had removed the 2.4.17-6mdk and -7mdk kernels rather quickly. I had hoped this one would be usable.
Nope. In particular, if you plan on installing/using it on a laptop I advise you to steer clear of the Mandrake cooker 2.4.17 kernels. Between Linus' changing the virtual memory management system in the middle of the 2.4.x kernel development cycle and whatever it is that Mandrake is doing with Cooker, the 2.4.17 kernel is BROKEN. PCMCIA is a mess, sound support is a mess...at least on my IBM Thinkpad. No matter what I tried, sound was impossible to get working. Getting pcmcia to work with my very simple 3com 589 pcmcia card was hit or miss, mostly miss. Give these kernels a wide berth - they are truly not ready for prime time. I had wanted to get at least one of them going because they include some THEORETICALLY nice added security features...an extra tab/button in xconfig called grsec. These features can be selected to make the system less vulnerable to DoSing, stealthier to portscanners, and harder to exploit in general. Besides pcmcia being dorked (and sound), the security features seem to wreck kudzu and, perhaps, a few other services/tools. If they work, they will obviously require a good deal system administration just to make the system usable in their presence. Looks like I'll have to follow another's advice and download some kernel source from THE kernel source...kernel.org...and hope their recent offerings are functional. praedor __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
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