As per the title - how soon do the 'main' distributions tend to offer ready made upgrades to the latest (currently 2.6.18) kernel? ... and having asked that which of Mandriva, Ubuntu and Suse is likely to offer it first?
Being lazy I'd prefer not to have to compile my own kernel though I have done it before.
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 13:49, cl@isbd.net wrote:
which of Mandriva, Ubuntu and Suse is likely to offer it first?
Do Ubuntu use Debian kernels? If so, it may be relevant that (afaik) Debian have decided that 2.6.17 is going to be the etch kernel (or, at least, they've done a -2 package for it).
Richard
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:56:48PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 13:49, cl@isbd.net wrote:
which of Mandriva, Ubuntu and Suse is likely to offer it first?
Do Ubuntu use Debian kernels? If so, it may be relevant that (afaik) Debian have decided that 2.6.17 is going to be the etch kernel (or, at least, they've done a -2 package for it).
Nope - they use thier own with lots of firmware and foo in it to make all your hardware "magically" work. They're usually a little quicker than Debian at mangling in newer kernels too, but then 3 arches versus 11 makes that slightly easier ;)
Cheers,
cl@isbd.net wrote:
As per the title - how soon do the 'main' distributions tend to offer ready made upgrades to the latest (currently 2.6.18) kernel? ... and having asked that which of Mandriva, Ubuntu and Suse is likely to offer it first?
Being lazy I'd prefer not to have to compile my own kernel though I have done it before.
On Gentoo, I just compiled 2.6.17-r8, if that's any help!
Cheers, Laurie.
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:49:27PM +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
As per the title - how soon do the 'main' distributions tend to offer ready made upgrades to the latest (currently 2.6.18) kernel? ... and having asked that which of Mandriva, Ubuntu and Suse is likely to offer it first?
2.6.18 is already part of Debian unstable. It's unlikely to ever make an actual stable release though. I don't know how fast any of the other distros add things.
Being lazy I'd prefer not to have to compile my own kernel though I have done it before.
What are you hoping to get from tracking the most recent kernel if you're just using distro provided kernels? Do you have an unsupported device or some bug you're hitting?
J.
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:04:31PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:49:27PM +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
As per the title - how soon do the 'main' distributions tend to offer ready made upgrades to the latest (currently 2.6.18) kernel? ... and having asked that which of Mandriva, Ubuntu and Suse is likely to offer it first?
2.6.18 is already part of Debian unstable. It's unlikely to ever make an actual stable release though. I don't know how fast any of the other distros add things.
Being lazy I'd prefer not to have to compile my own kernel though I have done it before.
What are you hoping to get from tracking the most recent kernel if you're just using distro provided kernels? Do you have an unsupported device or some bug you're hitting?
Yes, I want Jmicron SATA/PATA support so I can access my DVD/CD drive.
I also believe that my Realtek 8168 ethernet needs a very recent kernel.
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:16:30PM +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Yes, I want Jmicron SATA/PATA support so I can access my DVD/CD drive.
I also believe that my Realtek 8168 ethernet needs a very recent kernel.
I think I already mentioned that the next release of Ubuntu should support all of that hardware, they are shipping a 2.6.17 kernel but with the bits you want backported. Release day is October 20th. In fact taking a look, my machine (running the Ubuntu beta release of Edgy) has the module for the jmicron already in it, sounds like the install problem you hit was that it wasn't in the initrd on the boot kernel on the install disc for the beta.
Adam
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