Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades
Scott Burns
scott at mirrabooka.com
Wed Jan 14 05:33:26 UTC 2004
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...
--
Scott Burns
Mirrabooka Systems
Tel +61 7 3857 7899
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