Re: Sharing Kernels Revisited

2002-07-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I know. This is, I suppose, a philosophical difference. Most Linux gurus recommend running customized kernels. I've played in that arena and feel comfortable there, but still hold to several benefits of running canned kernels. The main benefit is upgradeability... If there are security

Re: Sharing Kernels Revisited

2002-07-09 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:03:46 -0400 begin Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: [snip] I see benefits both ways, but in my attempt to remain corporately responsible I must tip my hat to canned kernels. canned kernels are great if: you don't run a specialized system (i.e.,

Re: Sharing Kernels Revisited

2002-07-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
2.4.13 (COLW3.1.1) provides drivers which handle the DLink, Orinoco, and Cisco wireless cards out of the box just fine. I'm not saying that there aren't drawbacks to both approaches, but the approach I believe most fitting to mainstream server installs (at least in Corporate America) is canned

Re: Sharing Kernels Revisited

2002-07-08 Thread Net Llama!
fstab is different, perhaps? On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: A few days ago we talked about sharing a kernel between installs (eg. SuSE and COL installed on same system, both running the 2.4.18 kernel included in SuSE). Now I do have one question... I was running COLS3.1 with

Re: Sharing Kernels Revisited

2002-07-08 Thread Tim Wunder
On 7/8/2002 4:41 PM, someone claiming to be Matthew Carpenter wrote: A few days ago we talked about sharing a kernel between installs (eg. SuSE and COL installed on same system, both running the 2.4.18 kernel included in SuSE). Now I do have one question... I was running COLS3.1 with the

Re: Sharing Kernels Revisited

2002-07-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:00:47 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because ide-cd is loaded before ide-scsi, or ide-cd support is compiled into the kernel? hmm.. Interesting thought... Perhaps the ide-cd support is compiled into SuSE's kernel, whereas is was not in COL's 2.4.2 On Mon, 8

Re: Sharing Kernels Revisited

2002-07-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:00:47 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because ide-cd is loaded before ide-scsi, or ide-cd support is compiled into the kernel? hmm.. Interesting thought... Perhaps the ide-cd support is compiled into SuSE's