On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 15:09 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of installing gentoo now,
good! [snip]
> > What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen
> > gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just
> > left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19.
> >
> > Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about
> > severe file system damage.
> >
> > -- hendrik
>
> there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside
> the directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches
> have been applied by looking at the ebuilds.
to those not familiar with gentoo: there is also a vanilla-sources
ebuild, which installs the kernel exactly as it is from kernel.org, with
no patches, if you want to go that way.
HTH,
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
-- Oscar Wilde
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