My question is why do you need such an outdated kernel? Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:01, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > There are kernel archives, but they only go back to last year. You > would be hard pressed to find kernel 2.6.20 or a distro with that > kernel. It goes back to at least 2007. Feisty Fawn Ubuntu 7.04 ran it. > So he would need an ISO from that era. You can still get one from > Ubuntu even though there is no support. He could try other distros and > see if they have archives, too. > > http://www.kernel.org/ > http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_20 > http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.04/ > > The same question was posed here by the same person with no responses: > http://www.unix.com/linux/153102-linux-kernel-2-6-20-a.html > > Roy > > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit > Location: Canada > > > > On 30 January 2011 08:10, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]> wrote: > > hadi, > > The latest stable kernel is 2.6.37, according to kernel.org. Actually > > 2.6.20 is pretty old. I can say with certainty that all the distros > under > > current development have surpassed 2.6.20 some time ago. I'm running > Mint > > 10, which uses 2.6.35-22. The questions you need to be asking yourself > in > > choosing a distro go more along the lines of "What do I expect this > distro > > to do for me? Am I a beginner, intermediate, or expert at command-line > > tricks? Which package management system do I want to deal with (deb, > rpm, > > pacman, etc...)?, etc... Unless you're a person who is tremendously > > kernel-savvy, the kernel version is really just a number that doesn't > mean > > much, IMHO. > > HTH, > > Scott > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:55 AM, hadi motamedi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Thank you very much for your reply that corrected me. Can you please > >> let me know which Linux distributions have some sort of kernel 2.6.20 > >> as built-in that I can try to download them? > >> > >> > >> On Jan 30, 3:43 pm, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > In other words, distribution names are not tied to kernel versions. > >> > Kernel > >> > versions are just that, numbers. They don't normally name engines in > >> > cars, > >> > they just put them in named cars. They name distributions and add a > >> > compilation of packages to it, including the kernel package. During > >> > updates > >> > to the distro, the kernel often is updated to the latest one > compatible > >> > with > >> > that distro. > >> > > >> > Jeremiah E. Bess > >> > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > >> > > >> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 06:36, Jeremiah Bess > >> > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > I will. But first, you must answer this question: Which car has a > 1.8 > >> > > liter > >> > > 4 cylinder engine? > >> > > >> > > Jeremiah E. Bess > >> > > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > >> > > >> > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 06:01, hadi motamedi <[email protected]> > >> > > wrote: > >> > > >> > >> Dear All > >> > >> Can you please let me know what is the Linux distribution name for > >> > >> kernel 2.6.20? > >> > >> Thank you in advance > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > >> > >> Users > >> > >> Group. > >> > >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] > >> > >> To unsubscribe, send email to > >> > >> [email protected] > >> > >> For more options, visit our group at > >> > >>http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > >> Group. > >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > >> For more options, visit our group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > > > -- > > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > > ------------------------------------------ > > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
