marsaro@interearth.com wrote:

The reason that you have not seen the lateer Kernels is because of the testing and such SuSE will go through before any "official" posts......I do not know what you are doing, but do you have _specific_ needs for a newer version? If you are interested in looking at a newer .x release just for fun you can find tar balls of the source at people/mantel/next in the pub dir on ftp.suse.com and its mirrors.....however, like I said, unless you need something specific it might be a lot of wasted Cycles on your part.

I don't know if I need a later kernel than 2.4.0, even -- but all the talk about later versions here seemed to imply that my system would run better if I updated, especially to 2.4.2, and that anyone who didn't update was a hopeless old fogey. I'm particularly puzzled, though, why a binary version of 2.4.2 would be available on the website even if a source version isn't. Actually, I'm now struggling with the fact that after doing the 2.4.2 binary update, the network driver (8139too.o) can't detect the network card, and so I've lost my network connection. (I'm sending this very post from a different machine.) And so far I haven't succeeded in reverting the binaries to 2.4.0 either, so my next tack is to work from the kernel sources and recompile. That has the advantage of stripping out lots and lots of unneeded stuff, since the default kernel is configured to include almost everything at least as a module. Paul Abrahams