>
> .. and get some of that new VM performance goodness .. (_finally_ I can
> stopper my ears against the yells of the FreeBSD crowd that their VM is
> better)
>
not only that but with netfilter and all the other network goodies...and
with devfs(if a distro implements it...LVM...argghhh!)...and non-blocking
SMP... 2.4 is a macho kernel...wow!
linux probably now has even better networking support, file system support
and smp support than a lot of other OSes out there. there are tons of
reasons to move to 2.4.
> but my problems are..
>
> 1) updating to 2.4.0 will require (to my knowledge) upgrades of glibc and
> mod_utils only.. but glibc is like the most important bit after the
> kernel.. will it break my beloved oracle 8.1.7 enterprise edition
> install? (no, not production, just my toy)
>
> 2) will anything else break? i know i will need an updated DRM for my 3d
> acceleration, but is there anything else to bite me in the *ss?
>
basically, you do not really have to upgrade glibc to 2.2 but you will
some kernel goodies available to glibc. what you can do is try out
upgrading just the kernel and the modutils. this will work with your stock
distro that comes with a 2.2 kernel. nothing will be broken...well almost
nothing. you have to deal with apps that are kernel friendly like ppp and
pcmcia to name a few. but aside from that UPGRADE.
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