On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, CPH wrote:
> On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:48, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > CPH, > > Hi Jim, > > > there's 2 issues keeping us from creating a 2.6 kernel package for LTSP. > > > > 1) There's no nfs-swap patch available for the 2.6.x kernel tree. > But as a preliminary test, you may not need nfs-swap. > However am I right in thinking that without the nfs-swap patch it will not > boot ? Sure it would boot. It's just that machines with low memory would be out of reach for us, and that is VERY important to many many people. > > > 2) There's not enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do. > Now that I can understand :) > > > As for advantages in using the 2.6 kernel on the client, nobody has > > given me a real good reason why they need it yet. > I've seen quite a bit of work recently on the usb related code and was hoping > to get better performace and compatability. > > If there was no obvious blocking points I would be interested in having a go > at this. Is there any packages that need to be updated ? I've not studied the new kernel enough to know what would be needed. I think at a bare minimum the modutils package would have to be updated. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This Newsletter Sponsored by: Macrovision For reliable Linux application installations, use the industry's leading setup authoring tool, InstallShield X. Learn more and evaluate today. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSI/go/ins0030000001msi/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
