On Lin, 2003-12-21 at 09:13, Marc Henry Galang wrote: >Is it advisable to upgrade your kernel on your current distro? say >Redhat9? coz AFAIK the kernel mediates between your programs and your >hardware,so upgrading might render useless some of your programs if >they're notcompatible with the new kernel... right? I dont know, I just >want to makesure that its ok before upgrading my redhat 9 kernel 2.4.20 to >2.6. cansomeone enlighten on this?
You'd have to tailor-fit RH9 to be "2.6-ready". You might consider updating a lot of your userland tools (module-init-tools first and foremost, then other apps) just to make full use of 2.6's nice features. But otherwise it's great. Basically I tried it a few hours/days ago on my home machine. Really nice, save for one caveat - my current version of cdrecord and cdrdao won't go with the new kernel (to get over this, just build the latest alpha of cdrecord then follow the instructions in the cdrecord documentation; for cdrdao just compile the latest from cvs). Can't say the same thing on my production server at work [Pentium II-Deschutes, 400MHz,,, probably bad hardware getting worse I think] though - 2.6 just crashes on my machine there for about 7 times already before I finally quit (for a while :D) to revert to my trusty 2.4 setup. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
