At 05:39 PM 6/27/2001 +0000, you wrote:

On June 27, 2001 09:36 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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Get the modutils for 2.4.2 and then get the 2.4.5 kernel from /pub/people/mantel/next/RPM...why go with something as old as 2.4.2..when 2.4.5 is the current stable.

Is 2.4.5 stable?

I think only whole version are stable i.e. on'ce it's 2.4.6 it is but 2.4.5.x isn't. I could be wrong though.

I just grabbed the latest src version from /mantel 2.4.5.5 I think. Time to reboot. The file I got a few days ago. [2.4.5.4 I think] gave me some wierd problems.

Nick

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maybee I missed a message or something. Why is the 2.4.2 renamed to dontuse? I mean I can assume because someone @ SuSE doesn't want it used, but I'm wondering why? It's running well on two machines here. *shrug* I did as advised and compiled the nvida drivers for mantel's 2.4.5 kernel. Full glx support. Still getting unresolved symbols messages when I run a depmod though. I may be imagining things but mantel's 2.4.5 kernel seems to be running faster here. System's got more snap and less used RAM (at least in RL 3). Good work Mantel. I have to interject something to the SuSE folks here. I ran drake since 6.5. After trying SuSE on my personal box I've put it (dual boot) on my wife's pc as well. Now our little ICS box is running it. You might feel discouraged hearing my complaints about this that or the other. However, please understand that I personally feel you are putting out a far superior distribution. If my only complaint is that I have to compile nvidia drivers because I'm trying a _development_ kernel than you're doing well. A kernel update on drake was disasterous. (Lots of error messages like vfat not supported by kernel unable to locate module XXX, etc). I mean to update a kernel with your distribution is rather easy. download the RPM install it with yast, run mk_initrd, and rerun lilo. Boom done! So next time ya read one of my whining emails please remember that humans are never satisfied, and your producing a wonderful product. Keep your standards high and you'll do well. End of rant. Ambrosius <snipped as I was long winded enough> - -- ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ??????????????????????????????? Name: Harold aka "Ambrosius" Email: ambrosius@mailandnews.com (L)ICQ Number: 117212600 Distro: SuSE Linux 7.1 Pro Registered Linux User: 216397 ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ??????????????????????????????? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7PEDQ1UIAeY3WgCcRAq7hAKCOk7IkTkYyme4fnufADfiqDn5adQCfRSbN zawtR0gItWKXbWBIkHxNlf0= =C41q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Anders Johansson wrote:

I certainly hope you are :) I'm currently running 2.2.18-42

I believe 2.4.x is the 'vanilla' version from kernel.org, while the build numbers is SuSE's internal numbering. The higher the better, I should think

Correct. That is the 42nd revision of our 2.2.18 (Which is 2.2.18 vanilla, plus some SuSE patches). regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs

Thanks guys. I will do that. Victor -----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:ben@whack.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:36 PM To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] 2.4.2 on ftp.suse.com Get the modutils for 2.4.2 and then get the 2.4.5 kernel from /pub/people/mantel/next/RPM...why go with something as old as 2.4.2..when 2.4.5 is the current stable. * Victor R. Cardona (vcardon@siue.edu) [010627 14:29]: ->I was going to upgrade my SuSE 7.1 installation to kernel 2.4.2 on the ->SuSE FTP site. I noticed that the directory was marked "Do not use" I ->have not been able to find out why it was marked as such. I was hoping ->that perhaps someone from SuSE would be able to shed some light on it. -> ->Thanks, ->Victor -> -> ->-- ->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 and the ->archives at http://lists.suse.com -> -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- The only argument for the superiority of Windows over UNIX is that General Protection Fault outranks Colonel Panic. -- 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 and the archives at http://lists.suse.com

Because it's a development version, not really meant for public use. When it's considered ready, it'll be in the update tree on the ftp (currently there's 2.4.4-29 there now) On Thursday 28 June 2001 00:42, Landy Roman wrote:

and why not suse have 2.4.5 and the regular localtion

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:36:10 -0700

Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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Get the modutils for 2.4.2 and then get the 2.4.5 kernel from /pub/people/mantel/next/RPM...why go with something as old as 2.4.2..when 2.4.5 is the current stable.

* Victor R. Cardona (vcardon@siue.edu) [010627 14:29]: ->I was going to upgrade my SuSE 7.1 installation to kernel 2.4.2 on the ->SuSE FTP site. I noticed that the directory was marked "Do not use" I ->have not been able to find out why it was marked as such. I was hoping ->that perhaps someone from SuSE would be able to shed some light on it. -> ->Thanks, ->Victor -> -> ->-- ->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 and the ->archives at http://lists.suse.com ->

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It's not On Thursday 28 June 2001 00:49, Landy Roman wrote:

so how can it be considered stable if its under develpment

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:48:27 +0200

Anders Johansson wrote:

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Because it's a development version, not really meant for public use.

When it's considered ready, it'll be in the update tree on the ftp (currently there's 2.4.4-29 there now)

On Thursday 28 June 2001 00:42, Landy Roman wrote:

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and why not suse have 2.4.5 and the regular localtion

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:36:10 -0700

Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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Get the modutils for 2.4.2 and then get the 2.4.5 kernel from /pub/people/mantel/next/RPM...why go with something as old as 2.4.2..when 2.4.5 is the current stable.

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-> ->Thanks, ->Victor -> -> ->-- ->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

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