On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 16:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I don't know of any Fedora application that works > with Fedora kernel 2.6.x.y-n > that does not work equally well with vanilla kernel 2.6.x.y . > That is what I mean by orthogonal. We just had a case where the installed version of udev did not work with one of the kernel versions on some machines. > > I asked you for an example of this. > You didn't given one, so I assume you cannot find one. > > Currently the kernels are distributed compiled for several cpu > versions > > so that is not something that needs to be done by the user. > > Not true. > None of the distribution kernels I have seen > use CPU choices that accurately match any of the machines I have. What do you make of the fact that the 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 kernel came in two rpms. One called 2.6.22.1-33.fc7.i586 and the other called 2.6.22.1-33.fc7.i686? -- ======================================================================= There's so much to say but your eyes keep interrupting me. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx