On Tuesday 12 October 2004 20:13, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'm wondering what functionality one loses by running the latest kernel from kernel.org versus the latest one from SuSE. And SuSE also has some unofficial test kernels available too, don't they?
I seem to remember that at one time SuSE had some kernel support for SuSE splash screens that wasn't in the standard kernels. Is that still the case?
I really don't think that you actually "lose" functionality on a hand rolled kernel vs a SuSE provided one. I used to do that back in the 5.1 days, you just have to configure things that you want. I'm personally just using the stock 9.1 kernel now, since it works for my hardware on my personal computer. Splash screens are just that... spiffy graphic stuff. You do have to enable a few features in the kernel, (can't recall off hand) but it's possible. In debian I almost "always" do a custom kernel, but thats for servers and such. That's really the cool thing about linux though... you always have the options available to you! :) Dana