On 8/16/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/16/07, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... whey do you need a modern kernel? > > A lot of wireless chipsets only work with the latest kernels. Or so > I understand. Maybe backported drivers are available.
Sure. I had to upgrade Mandrake to get my wireless card back then. And RedHat 7 didn't work either. That's basically the sticking point here. There's also the question of security updates, which can be an issue > for things like web browsing. But one could always download the > stand-alone binary of Firefox from the Mozilla site. Sure. It might be that a current version doesn't work with the older libraries w/o a recompile. IIRC there was a change somewhere around RH 6 -> 7. Another GUI browser that doesn't have the security issues might be possible too. There's also the issue of flash, java, etc.
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