[OT] Upgrading from RH73 to FC2

Horst von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Sat May 28 23:46:50 UTC 2005


tony <tony at tgds.net> said:
> > Why FC2?  It is end of life.  Why not wait a couple of weeks and use
> > FC4?

> One reason for not using FC4 is if you are using VIA EPIA M and need DRM
> for MPEG2 acceleration.

> One reason for not using FC3 is that udev is "a work in progress" and
> DVB and lirc are tough to get working from FC supplied kernels.

Not having any need for either, can't comment.

> I can not compile a stock kernel.org kernel on FC4 without funky errors.

Strange... I do it almost daily. Currently running 2.6.12-rc5 from git as
of yesterday.
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