On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Raider wrote:
> Hi!
> One stupid theorectical question. So we have a new stable
> kernel. The 2.2.x series. And it getts better and better - the
> 10th patch level. As I heard - I didn't have the pleasure to test
> any of the new 2.2.x kernels - they run faster on newer hardware.
> There was a big problem with the 2.2.x kernels, as with any major or
> minor changes in Linux. It needs a bunch of new software. Software
> that with the older 2.0.x kernels aren't really needed. So I can
> have an old distribution and all I have to do is to get the patches
> for the new kernel without any other upgrades. But there are
> distributions that make use of the new generation of kernels. So
> there is no problem now in getting in a fast, cheap and painles way
> all to run well a new kernel at full power.
Don't you still need a new modutils and some other stuff with the 2.2.x
kernels?
> And now here it goes the question: why 2.0.37? This
> question arised a couple of moments when I was checking my private
> mails - kernel announce is consderet to be part of private mails -
> and saw that both 2.0.37 and 2.2.10 are out. Can somebody shed some
> light?
Do you still have the announce for 2.0.37? I wonder if I want to shift
all my local patches. (I have an hdformat IOCTL I made, and some clone
enhanncements Ulrich Weigand adapted from the 2.2x for use with Wine.)
May as well get the patch and see what it is :-)
Lawson
>
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
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