> One time I tried to update my kernel and failed to choose all > kernel options at the beginning. :-)
I'd say that if in the future you are likely to be doing things at all out of the ordinary with your Linux installation (this includes things of an experimental nature like USB and anything which might require you to add software to the kernel tree, for example drivers for new hardware which haven't yet made it to the vanilla kernel sources) then it will be well worth-while to persevere with kernel building. It is true that the initial configuration can be a little confusing, indeed IMHO it is the most confusing part of building a kernel (and also IMHO it doesn't need to be that way) but once you're past that stage it's a real breeze. I routinely build new kernels when they are released, it takes just a few minutes now I know what I'll need to do.
If you're using a distribution like Mandrake or RedHat then the kernel you're using is probably an old one, but quite heavily patched. Some of the patches will have been back-ported from releases of more recent kernels, for example security fixes, but others will have been done for reasons best known to the maintainer of the distribution. Usually when I install from a distribution the first thing that I do is install the latest vanilla kernel that I can get from that series. For example I just installed RH9 on a machine and replaced the kernel with 2.4.24 as soon as I could boot it. I've never had problems with this approach.
That sounds very impressive for me. Actually I wondered often about those people in such groups always having the most up to date kernel installed.
At the moment we haven't lectures at the univerity, maybe I'll spend some time again with this topic. (I also want those ACPI things to work with my notebook.)
> > 73, -> what does it mean?
It's from the old Morse code days. It means "Best wishes".
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Ged.
Ah, interesting.
Ok then. Ciao, Uwe.
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