AFAIK, if you're using apt and have all your repos configured, you can find kernel-source packages, and even new kernel install packages, for every kernel that has ever run with Fedora Core 1 or 2. It's just a matter of going beyond the distro to add some other package-management tools. But while I'm on the subject, I agree--the initial response to the complaint about a lack of kernel sources was uncalled-for. The *last* thing *anyone* in this community should *ever* say to anyone else is "go back to Windows if you're not adventurous enough," etc., etc. And even if I didn't have a serious concern with the spread of Windows, with all its security and other issues--if we as members of a community can't be polite to one another, then the community will die. Period. The kind of flat-out rudeness I saw might be appropriate in a military training camp, but not in a community of information handlers trying to persuade others to use a system we're all supposed to believe in. Temlakos On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 11:24, Ken Johanson wrote: > Thanks Jakub, its good to hear a Redhat employee offering help. You also > avoided being inflammatory, showing tremendous constraint -- I admire that. > > I truly appreciate the module build advise - it benefits all of us. > Thank you. > > In regard to original my complaint (ignoring its cause; module > compilation and default header paths), can you explain Redhat's > reasoning for not including the kernel source *in* the distro? -- just > for the sake of argument for someone wanting to do the usual.. slim down > the kernel, or say, build special scsi drivers into the image. etc. > > Yet you did also mention that kernel rpm *is* available; is that > included on the main install disks - or would a user have to have > network access, search for it, and check versions (which supposedly dont > always jive from what another post mentioned about 2.6.9 inclusions)? Is > the kernel-rpm placed somewhere on the add-remove app that I just didnt > see (I checked under "development tools")? > > Thanks for responding, > -Ken
