Re: Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades

[Scott Burns <scott mirrabooka com>]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> 1) Since I installed FC1 just before Christmas, I have had to do 4
> kernel upgrades in 3 weeks.  Is that an anomalous period, or it's
> always going to be like that in the Fedora world?  I don't remember so many
> kernel updates in a short time like this with RHL8/9. Or I'm getting
> what I'm paying for? :)
>
> Dec 24 14:48 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl 
> Jan  6 17:50 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl
> Jan  7 23:19 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl
> Jan 13 20:40 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl
>
>  
This is a major problem for me.  I'm connected using a 33k6 modem from 
home.  Two kernels and a glibc inside a week is killing me.  To add 
insult to injury I spent all my spare time last night recompiling my 
kernel and getting the NVidia driver to work.  I woke up this morning to 
find 2149 was out.  With a 5 month old son, losing that spare time hurt.

I know many people are against the idea of patches, but could we at 
least have a patch set for the kernel source?  For those of us who roll 
their own, it'd reduce the download from 40 odd Meg down to a matter of 
kilobytes.  That's gotta take the strain off of a few servers...

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