could compile kernel from kernel.org for fedora?

[John Wendel]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:37:21PM +0800, Zhen Zhou wrote:
>> Thanks a lot. On the other words--if I want to compile new kernel, for
>> instance, 2.6.17 or newer, the system should be upgrade to fedora
>> release 5 in the end. That is not a good news for me.
>> Is there any choices? because I only want to use upgrade the newer
>> kernel, and taste new function, like pptp-nat, l7-filter and so on.
>> Any tips? TIA
> 
> You can't eat your cake and still have it -- if you want the newest and
> latest stuff, you can't have the old version of a distro.
> 
> Fedora Core 3 is also only supported by Fedora Legacy for security updates;
> you'll be better off with FC5 or newer...
> 
> 

I haven't been following this thread, so this may have already seen 
this advice ...

I have an FC3 box running kernel 2.6.17.4 (latest from kernel.org). It 
works fine for me. Just download the kernel (and patches), untar and 
patch the kernel, edit a .config file, and run "make", "make 
modules_install", "make install". The only tricky part is getting the 
.config file right. You can probably copy the Fedora config file as a 
starting point. I like to remove all the modules that don't apply to 
my system (makes the compile faster and saves disk space).

Of course, there are lots of things in a distro beyond the kernel. And 
at some point you'll want to upgrade for new features. But the latest 
kernel works fine with FC3.

And Matthew Miller is right, "you'll be better off with FC5 or newer".

Regards,

John Wendel