Am Sa, 2003-09-13 um 23.07 schrieb M Daniel R M: > <snip> > However, I couldn't install the SuSE Linux > 8.2 and I wasn't able to understand why one distro YES and another NO if > the kernels were the same or very very similar, and these two distros > were built and launched about at the same time. Maybe SuSe forgot to > include a SATA support module? It was disappointing, but I've aswell > forgotten that point... > </snip>
That's because every Linux Distributor is applying patches to the Kernel as they think it should be. RH has a great Kernel hacker named Alan Cox. He maintains a Kernel line named ac. His Kernel is known supporting a lot more Hardware than the plain vanilla you can download from kernel.org. It also includes nptl threading, which is supposed to be used in 2.6. If you install the source of the kernel, rpm -ivh kernel-foo.src.rpm you can look at /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES which patches are applied. Greetings. Also if you buy bleeding edge hardware, you have to wait till the Kernel supports it. Or you can download a 2.6-testX testing Kernel and compile your own one. As the Kernel hackers mostly have to find out for themselv how devices are working, i think they make a great job. But be aware that is no stable Kernel. -- ___ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / you have the wrong problem -*- /_____/_/_//_/\___/ /_/\_\ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC Service GmbH http://www.pcservice.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG-Keyprint = 626E E119 0142 CB25 F754 EF52 BE18 3B5F E378 172B
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