My question is why do you need such an outdated kernel?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
> >> >
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