On Sunday 09 November 2003 18:54, Dave Jones wrote: > > 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. With 100 messages a day one has to be parsimonious in one's reading matter. I was not in fact aware that you had any particular importance in this sphere, so would not have paid particular importance to your postings. Maybe you should have a title "Official Fedora kernel compiler" or some such, so that ignoramuses like me will know we should listen when you speak. > > 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). To be a little rude in return -- I have always found RedHat's special kernels to be a snare and a delusion. Far from being better than the Torvald's version they nearly always had weird quirks. (Eg none of the ones I tried had Bluetooth properly installed.) I'm perfectly happy to wait until an improvement gets Torvald's blessing. What I wouldn't be happy about would be if Fedora made some change, eg in an init script, which meant the official kernel no longer ran properly. -- 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
