> I loaded Red Hat Linux 5.2 onto my machine. Everything is working great.
> Wanting to make full use of both processors I looked into rebuilding my
> Linux 2.0.36-0.7 kernel with the SMP=1 in the makefile.
There are two SMP 2.0 fixes post 2.0.36pre7 which is what Red Hat includes
(well its pre7 + stuff). For SMP I'd recommend the final 2.0.36
> After doing some research about Linux SMP it seems that I might be better
> off building the latest Linux kernel, which seems to be 2.1.79.
2.1.129, might tbe 130 now
> Where do download the latest kernel?
ftp.kernel.org
> Is working with the latest kernel any better that using my current
> 2.0.36-0.7 kernel for SMP?
2.1.x kernels are development kernels, that means they should be faster,
should be superior, and probably have some interesting bugs in them.
Alan
