Hello Ron, on Monday, October 02, 2000 at 13:48:19 -0700, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:

Hello,

Having used the SuSE - hacked 2.2.17-SMP for over six weeks now, and being incredibly satisfied with it, I pose the following (seemingly) stupid question.

Can you use the SuSE - hacked kernel on other distros without problems?

My first guess is that - yes - a kernel is a kernel. But, I know that Red Hat, Debian, e.g. all have their own kernel hacks. Are these somehow optimized for their base install? Are the kernel hacks only different by means of opinions and expertise of staff programers with the respective companies?

Thanks,

Ron

My guess is that a kernel is not specific to one distro. The only differences are the patches they apply to the vanillia kernel sources (ie: LVM, ide, ReiserFS, ALSA, ...). So using the kernel from one distro to another shouldn't be a problem but specific patches may require user space tools to work properly like LVM or ALSA. Regards... -- Jean-François Bocquet ================================+ http://tns01.free.fr | ··· Linux User #177410| | GPG publickey: http://tns01.free.fr/pubkey.asc | fingerprints: 4E98 A7F2 6C26 6554 9562 C64E 5548 BF94 DE59 0A12 | =================================+ | -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ +------------------------------------+ Version: 3.12 Comment: For info see http://www.geekcode.com GCS/S d-- s:+ a- C++ UL+>++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o+ K- !w O? M? V? PS PE- Y+ PGP+ t+ 5? X++ R tv++ b+ DI- D+ G e+ h! r-- y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ <HR> <UL> <LI>application/pgp-signature attachment: stored </UL> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq