On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Ivo Simicevic wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:02:55PM +0300, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> > requires libax25-0.0.4 or newer and a 2.2.x kernel. It will _NOT_ work
> > with 2.0.x kernels. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Too bad.
>
> Sorry to hear that 2.0.x kernels are going away. I guess lots of hams
> still have lots of hardware on which 2.2.x kernels wouldn't go.
Um? 2.2.x runs on all hardware that 2.0.x supports, and LOTS more.
New hardware drivers have been added, new platforms have been added, and
lots of old drivers and other features have been modularized, allowing you
to make a smaller (less-featured) kernel than before. It is faster on
new bigger SMP hardware, and also faster on small-memory and/or
big-swap systems with it's enhanced VM management. The developers actually
took time to optimize it on 8M, 16M systems...
> BTW, I was thinking that LinuxNode was a user program and not kernel
> program.
It's user-space, but like all other programs, it talks to the kernel to
access hardware and network protocols for instance, and if/when the
network protocol application interfaces change, you need to change the
application to match it. You can, if you are really interested to and have
the time, make it work on both.
- Hessu
