>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: >> >>> Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 >>> kernel >> >> Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete?
Andy wrote: >For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is obsolete. Not quite true. For example, a LFS 5.1.1 build should work fine on a 2.4 kernel. Of course, you may counter that LFS 5.1.1 is obsolete, but really LFS 5.1.1 and Linux 2.4 are both simply out of date, not obsolete. I would say that LFS 3.0 and Linux 2.0 are obsolete and are of interest to primarily computing historians. Looking at http://www.kernel.org/, one can see that the latest 2.4 kernel is version 2.4.32 released on 2005 Nov 16, which barely 15 days ago. Also, a fair amount of patches from Linux 2.6 are backported to Linux 2.4, keeping Linux 2.4 up to date in most respects other than the obvious unique features of Linux 2.6 that can't be backported to Linux 2.4 without a complete redesign. Also, please note that Slackware 10.2 (See http://www.slackware.com/) has the 2.6.13 kernel in the /testing directory. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
