Which kernel does Fedora use?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 09:52:21 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:59, Darren Hopkins wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I work for a software company that provides software for specific UNIX 
> flavours.
> 
> Today we have had a request from one of our customers to get a compile for 
> Fedora. We do not have a Fedora box in-house to do a compile on, and I was 
> wondering....is Fedora is based on one of the RedHat kernels (5.9 or ES3 
> perhaps?)...could we do a compile for this flavour and will it run on 
> Fedora?

>From http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/fedora-kernel-faq.txt

"Q. What kernel version does FC1 ship with ?
 A. kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
    This is based on 2.4.22-ac1, and has a number of 2.4.23pre
    patches also included."

The latest update kernel (in testing) is now 2.4.22-1.2163, and includes
even more backported fixes from 2.4.23 -> 2.4.25pre.

	Dave





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