-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi There I have seen some information recently about the mantel kernels for SuSe. The information about this series isn't very comprehensive . Anyone care to enlighten me ? Cheers Stephen - -- Stephen Prendergast SP Software Ltd 07 570 1452 021 466 247 Notice of Confidential Information: This electronic mail message and any accompanying attachments may contain information that is privileged and CONFIDENTIAL. Do NOT foward this email without permission. If you are not the intended recipient you are advised that any use, review, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of the information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this document in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the message. This email is inherently insecure and likely to pass through several scanners or sniffer computers - such is the Net. If you would like to recieve secure email from me please provide your public key and I shall add it to my keyring. This email composed and sent via SuSe Linux . Want to know more ? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+gLy9tq5y48GS1j4RAoeKAJ4g+Z2L7sxkCM/F9WHOJN+K0am35wCgiLj5 p8rUhv1Jw+spzzD+7sbSnMI= =xxHX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I could be mistaken about this part, but I believe "mantel" is SuSE's main kernel developer. I say this because the updates reside in what seems to be somebody's home directory. From what I understand these kernels are development pre-release for the next SuSE release. I don't think they are meant for the general community, but again I could be wrong. In certain cases, SuSE support might tell you to go download these if they have some added support that you need but isn't within your distro's latest kernel release. I had this issue and that's the only reason I know about it. -- David M. Fetter - http://www.fetterconsulting.com/ "The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it." Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 20:31, Stephen Prendergast wrote:
I have seen some information recently about the mantel kernels for SuSe. The information about this series isn't very comprehensive . Anyone care to enlighten me ?
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/README At the moment from the RPM section README it would appear that the ACPI support is the area worked on. Only run them if you have a very good reason, when I did need to use them, I'd avoid download of very new versions, but wait for them to stabilise a few days, that's particularly true after standard kernel releases. Anyway if you care about security, you should stay with mainstream supported kernels, which are better tested, and take the advice given in advisories. Rob
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