Yeah, when I saw his original post, I did try to help by visiting
Distrowatch. But I was unable to find a way to filter by kernel versions as
well.

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:44, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Indeed, an odd question.  But one way to find distros that have older
> kernels is to browse DistroWatch.  For example, using CentOS:
>
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos
>
> Scroll down to the linux line and scroll across to find the distro
> version that has exactly or just below your desired kernel version.
> Install that and then upgrade to the desired kernel.
>
> I'm not familiar enough with DistroWatch to know if you can filter or
> search by kernel version.  But if you discover something, please let
> us know.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:01 AM, 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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