Scribbling feverishly on May 23, Net Llama! managed to emit:
> Harry G wrote:
> >>Then again, you could avoid all of this headache by simply building
> >>2.4.18 from source.
> >
> >
> > Boy, you must really want me to fry my brain!
> >
> > Actually, though, is it tough? I have heard that Suse patches the crap
> > out of the kernel.
As do Red Hat and Caldera.
> I'm sure that SuSE does patch their kernels up the wazoo, but that
> hardly means that you are tied to them. All distros patch their kernels
> heavily. I haven't used a distro supplied kernel since 2.2.5.
Indeed. The first thing I do after a fresh distro install is wipe the
supplied kernel and kernel sources and downloa a virgin copy from my
favorite kernel mirror.
Kurt
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