On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:46:24PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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? See list archives. I've answered this at least twice in the last few weeks. > Can't I just compile the latest 2.4 or 2.6 kernel from www.kernel.org? Yes, with caveats that you lose the bits we add (see archive). Dave
