[K12OSN] *sigh* FC2 issues

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Yes, the Fedora version of the Linux kernel is quite severely tweaked.  
This is in line with both the experimental nature of Fedora itself and 
the fact that RHEL has a very severely tweaked 2.4 kernel.  Someone on 
the list named Mella, who was experiencing SMP problems, said earlier on 
the list that she D/L'd the official Linus kernel and compiled it, and 
her SMP problems went away.

Personally, I still use K12LTSP 2.1.2 in my school, and I run 3.1.2 at 
home (yes, both have their patches).  So far, so good.  The reason I 
stay with these "old" versions is that they work and people are happy 
with them.  Nobody's pointing a gun to anybody's head to run Fedora if 
they don't wish to; it's a choice that the individual sysadmin needs to 
make.

That said, Eric does need testers, so those of us with a spare server 
(my spare just went into production last month), and the time, should 
indeed test it.

--TP

Andrew wrote:

> Are you saying that fedora is distributed with a Linus kernel? I 
> understood that it was pretty heavily tweaked by redhat--which might 
> indeed make the problem fedora-centric- and this sort of thing would 
> be consonant with the "test-bed" aspect of fedora.
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 16:54, Andrew wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I had failing hardware on my initial install of fc1, on my upgrade 
>>> to fc2 on my personal box, an nforce2. Non-k12ltsp fedora provided 
>>> me with these issues...and my by now boring disl.ike of fedora.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yes, but hardware-related problems other than the ones triggered
>> by kudzu's probing aren't really fedora issues, they are just
>> coincidental based on the kernel release that happened around
>> the same time. 
>> ---
>>   Les Mikesell
>>    les at futuresource.com
>>