Specific Fedora kernel

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 09 November 2003 18:03, Dave Jones wrote:

> Such is life when you ship a heavily patched kernel. One of the things
> we're going to try and do for FC2 is keep the kernel as close to mainline
> as possible. So far, the only real big change is the addition of
> exec-shield.

As a matter of interest, why is a special kernel needed at all?
Can't I just compile the latest 2.4 or 2.6 kernel from www.kernel.org?
I've always done that with RedHat, and would be disappointed
if it were no longer possible.

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