On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:39 -0800, John Wendel wrote: > I think you're correct that RH applies a lot of kernel patches, but > I've never bothered. If they're really needed, then Linus would have > pulled them into the "standard" kernel. While that's probably true, I was thinking that they'd probably have customised things for their own distribution. i.e. It might be dependent on what they did, rather than what they did being particularly beneficial to one and all. It has been ages since I had a go at compiling a kernel. It seemed relatively painless, but then I was only adjusting a Red Hat one slightly differently, not jumping in the deep end (I hadn't tried from scratch). Though I didn't manage to succeed at what I wanted to do, which was set it up so it could read the old Amiga Fast File System (I've some data on an old drive I want to extract). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
