On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:31 pm, Karol Pietrzak, went on about:
On 14 Nov 2001, John Scott wrote:
Kernels 2.4.10 and later are much faster and secure.
Yes, completely true, but I would recommend going with the latest stable kernel release (i.e. 2.4.14) because there are no advantages to anything before it. Anything before 2.4.14 had a rather low performing VM and anything before 2.4.6 had a shitty VM (which corrupted by partition, oh, around 6 times).
I would update my kernel in the days of 2.2.X for reason [4]. Now with 2.4.X, however, I am forced to upgrade because of [1] and [2]. You'd think that at 2.4.14, things would settle down. The VM just friggin' switched...
Karol, The VM actually switched at 2.4.10 and Mantel's kernels have been using the new VM since then. The Alan Cox kernels are the only ones that used the old VM, but SuSE always uses Linus' versions which have incorporated the new VM since 2.4.10 and beyond. I don't know if Mantel has done a 2.4.14 kernel yet as those had not been tested enough. The last thing I saw from him was the stable 2.4.13-3 kernel, which is working very well also. Regards, O'Malley -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb