F7 Kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 USB stick

[Karl Larsen]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 17:17 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>>> I'm not disagreeing with you about Scientific Linux, which I haven't used,
>>> but CentOS 4 recently had a very large major upgrade from 4.4 to 4.5, which
>>> I, as a new CentOS user hoping for the non-upgrade kind of stability, found
>>> rather upsetting.  I was told that CentOS just follows RedHat, which had
>>> just done that to RHEL 4.  Is Scientific Linux different?
>> Sure, Scientific Linux has various different majors versions that are 
>> currently SL3 and SL4 (SL5 on the way). These are based on EL3 and EL4 
>> and very different beasts. You won't find yourself going from SL3 to SL4 
>> via yum, unless you choose to try and do that.
>>
>> For sure though SL also has sub-point releases, 3.x and 4.x (currently I 
>> am on a 4.5 release), which I think are the equivalents of what you talk 
>> about above. These updates I believe can occur through yum. However, 
>> I've not aware of any problems in this, its always been pretty flawless. 
>> I'm not the sys-admin though, but I never heard him complain (and I 
>> suspect I would have) or noticed any problems as a user.
>>
>> maybe SL is better than centos in this regard ?
> 
> I don't know, but I doubt it.  Both distros are intended to track RHEL
> pretty much exactly.  The upgrade to a new point release usually
> involves just installing a rather large number of bugfix updates to
> existing packages.
> 
> I recall some discussion from Red Hat of possibly retaining old point
> releases and issuing only security updates for them so that users
> wouldn't have to do the point release thing if they didn't want to.
> That is, one could maintain a RHEL 4.2 system and still get security
> updates even though RHEL 4.5 is current.  I don't know where that stands
> at this point, though.
> 
>> Chris
>>
>>
	Well stupid me, I forgot I saved the working kernel rpm. I found the 
rpm and with rpm -i --force I got it installed. It didn't want to 
install because of the buggy new ones...

	So happy again. My USB memory sticks and all are working and so is skype.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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