On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Thaths wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:30:26 +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello, Doctor. It's been a while.
yes, it has. How the years have flown. It's been some time since lih was
hosted on grandteton if memory serves me well. circa rh 5.0/5.2
> > What are my options other than to use a 2.4 kernel with FC2. If I do do
> > that, what are the pitfalls ? I really don't want to go back to RH9.
> > Alternately is there a way I can run RH9 in a windows while runing FC2 ?
> > Is that just wishful thinking ?
>
> I am sure you can run FC2 with a 2.4 kernel. Very few user-space
> application (daemons and applications) should depend that strongly on
> a particular kernel level. A kernel provides:
>
> 1. Filesystem abstraction to files and devices
> 2. Device drivers
> 3. Memory management
> 4. Process management and scheduling
> 5. Low level APIs to access the system (system calls)
>
> Of the above, user-space programs should only depend on system calls.
> Everything else must be kernel-version independant.
>
> Thaths
> PS: I am simplyfing things, of course
Life is rarely simple. So I just download the source and compile ?
Sharukh.
--
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer.
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think.
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