On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, you wrote:
On 28-Jan-99 crumb@midwest.net shaped the electrons to say:
I need a little clairification on this kernel 2.2 thing. If I buy SuSE 6.0 with, presumably kernel 2.0.36, then want to upgrade to 2.2 (whatever), would I have to download each patch from 2.0.37, 38, etc to 2.2, or just one patch, then recompile (a process I've never had the best of luck with). Also, what is in 2.2 that would make me WANT to recompile? Anybody know? Just curious.
SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED :) On my AMD K5 and Cyrix 6x86 Machines it achieves a speed invrease of around 30%. Besides that netscape does not die after 3h or so anymore and the Cyrix Machine finally got stable enough to run a Oracle Server with 10 clients.
I agree. and if you have a multiprocessor system, the speed increase is enormous. The new Adaptec SCSI driver is great.
To use the 2.2 kernel you will need to download the whole 2.2 file from either ftp.kernel.org or maybe when a SuSE version comes out from ftp.suse.com and compile it.
You will need to throw out the kerneld start files from your start files and you will need to update 2 - 3 packages so everything runs smoothly. But, its absolutely worth the effort.
Perhaps you could be kind enough to list those packages if you know them :-) Thank you. -- lunaslide * PGP key->pgpkeys.mit.edu port 11371 * * * * * * In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is * getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. * -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas * * * * * * - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>