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?
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.
And you could've used the new-ish 2.6 kernels that come with Slackware. It's all pre-compiled and ready to use. Pat's been doing that for a while AFAIK.
I've always been wary of distro kernels. Often they come patched up with more fluff than the dust in-between my old CPU fan. Makes diagnosing (and applying debug patches from kernel developers) harder.
In fact, slapt-get, the Slackware imitation of apt-get, seems to default to not updating the kernel, and I think that's possibly a good idea. Updating kernels for security reasons *is* a good idea, but how would slapt-get/apt-get/yum know that I've applied my own special driver patch that I desperately need?
Srdjan