On Tuesday 13 January 2004 22:24, Alexandre Strube wrote: > > Why spend all this time on the 2.4.x branch... why not just make the > > move to 2.6? > > They are way too different. If they can change versions just because of > gcc/glibc (redhat 8.0 to redhat 9), imagine the amount of changes when > such a big upgrade happens. I've seen this comment many times. I must be lucky, as I just downloaded 2.6.0 (and now 2.6.1) from http://www.kernel.org and it seemed to compile and work without any problems. [I'm not sure what did this - presumably "make modules_install" - but modprobe.conf - required for 2.6 - was automatically created for me.] -- 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
