[K12OSN] *sigh* FC2 issues

[Jim McQuillan]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:58:34AM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
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> On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 05:33, David Trask wrote:
> > Lastly....would it be possible to package a version of K12LTSP 4.1 based
> > on the Linus kernel as opposed to the Redhat influenced kernel? ?Then we
> > could do some head to head testing...OR if someone could post a thorough
> > HOW-TO on the wiki or something as to how to acquire and compile and thus
> > use the Linus kernel on our K12LTSP 4.1 systems (make very thorough as
> > many of us have never compiled a kernel...myself included and have no idea
> > where to start....don't assume we know ANYTHING) ?;-) ?That's my $.02
> 
> Are you confusing kernels here? They are one and the same, both "Linux 
> kernels", but one is compiled to RH FC2 standards and one would be done by 
> hand. What features of the Fedora compiled kernel are lacking?

Actually, the kernels are quite different.

There are the kernels that ship with Fedora.  These have a boat load of
patches supplied by redhat.

Then, there is the plain vanilla kernel, from ftp.kernel.org.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org


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