On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:22:27PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 05/11/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:11:40PM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
Have you considered dispensing with Fedora stock kernels, and compiling your own? That way, you'd control the frequency of kernel upgrades.
I did compile my own kernels on Slackware because (especially recently) my hardware was ahead of where the available Slackware kernels were.
Oh? What versions?
It was about a year ago when I bought new hardware (that I'm still running), the default Slackware 2.6 kernel didn't support the Jmicron 'legacy' IDE interface nor the Realtek RTL8168 ethernet on my motherboard.
However I was really aiming for a 'simpler life' and compiling kernels is one of the things I'd prefer not to do really.
But surely you would understand that, you would only need to compile a newish kernel once (or at most once in a while), so really there isn't such a massive overhead.
It's still time I could spend doing other things. :-)