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 > >>> > > >>> > >> -- > >>> > >> 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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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