On Monday 01 March 2004 08:56 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Don't bet too much on that. I know SuSE tend to back-port important features which you might not get from the source. I guess as long as you leave the SuSE kernel in place, you probably don't need to worry about rpm dependencies. I'm not sure exactly what I'd have to change these days to point to the correct boot image and initrd, but I'm loath to change things that SuSEconfig has under management, unless I use YaST to do it. If you do touch those files, you better pay close attention when applying patches, etc. SuSEconfig won't fix them up for you as it would its own work.
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Some valid points there but.... I think an off-hand kernel from SuSE is going to also miss some things that people may need... note the problems with vmware and some of the newer SuSE kernels. It's a mixed bag but I'd rather go the vanilla route. There's never been anything I know of that I needed and the vanilla kernel didn't have (but SUSE did). -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 03/02/04 08:59 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag."