On Sunday 09 November 2003 18:03, Dave Jones wrote: > Such is life when you ship a heavily patched kernel. One of the things > we're going to try and do for FC2 is keep the kernel as close to mainline > as possible. So far, the only real big change is the addition of > exec-shield. As a matter of interest, why is a special kernel needed at all? Can't I just compile the latest 2.4 or 2.6 kernel from www.kernel.org? I've always done that with RedHat, and would be disappointed if it were no longer possible. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
