Why FC-2?

[Timothy Murphy]

ne... wrote:

>>I'm running 2.6.3 under Fedora-1,
>>and didn't find any need for "a lot of misc fixups".
>>I just compiled the vanilla kernel.
>>(I've never understood why this is not standard.
>>I don't particularly want to use someone else's choice of modules.)
...
>>Admittedly I had to compile module-init-tools,
>>but as far as I could see there isn't a Fedora RPM for this anyway.
> FC does not need this. All you need is the modutils from Arjanv
> repository (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/).

I regard the distribution -- Fedora 1 or 2 --
and the kernel as more or less orthogonal.
I'm surprised this point of view is apparently so rare,
at least on this mailing list.

If a distribution really forced me to use a particular kernel
I would move to another distribution.
I'm sure the Arjanv kernel is excellent,
but I prefer to follow Linus Torvalds.

As far as I could see, one has to install module-init-tools
if one wants to compile and install a 2.6.* kernel.
(I don't claim to be a kernel expert,
and could easily be mistaken about this.)




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