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Dave Stubbs
dstubbs at penguin.8inchfloppy.com
Thu Sep 25 21:20:22 UTC 2003
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Dave Stubbs wrote:
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>>Is there a plan to move to the 2.6 kernel?
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>>It would definitely motivate me to give Fedora a real try - maybe run it
>>exclusively on my test box.
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>>Otherwise it's just one of the crowd of test distros out there, y'know?
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>so download it from www.kernel.org and install it. no big deal.
>the problem with waiting until it comes out officially is that
>the move from 2.4 to 2.6 is a fairly big jump, and could be
>a bit traumatic.
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>if you're playing with it now, and keeping up with the constant
>stream of patches and updates, then you get a nice, gradual
>transition into it. much less stressful.
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I'm already doing that, but with Debian unstable. There are a few
things like module-utils and others that need to be upgraded to make the
GNU/Linux OS work with Linux 2.6 kernel, which are already there if you
keep your Debian fresh.
But I've found that a little more difficult with Red-Hattish distros.
Maybe if Fedora took a stand and became a 2.6-based install from the
git-go, it would be easier. The nicest thing about RedHat is that you
put in the CDs and a few minutes later you have a nice, complete,
running system. It would be nice to have that WITH 2.6 already there.
Dave...
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