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[mha@xxxxxxxx (Michael Hasenstein)]

Rolando Roman wrote:
> 
> i am new and i recommend from source rather than rpm  you might want to ask
> more about that

Not essential any more these days, I only do it on big servers, but in
the end that's religion.

Anyway, I responded only to point out that on an rpm-based system even
the sources are rpm's.... 
The Linux sources are a little 'special', because it's a binary rpm
containing sources. In the case of the SuSE kernel, the patched sources.
It is in turn made by a source rpm, which contains a pristine 2.2.16 and
the SuSE patches in an extra file/files. You can find the single patches
somewhere on the CD, I forgot where, if you're interested to see what
exactly we do to a standard kernel.


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Michael Hasenstein
http://www.suse.de/~mha/
SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg (Germany)
SuSE Inc., Oakland, California (US)

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