Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-14 Thread persson
Chris wrote: > It depends on which one you want. There is gentoo-dev-sources, and mm > sources and maybe one or two others. Is there any chance that someday one will be able to get 2.6.x by upgrading 2.4.x vanilla-sources, or will they remain separated forever (meaning one has to explicitly ask

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, William Kenworthy uttered the following immortal words, > (on things I do every day), wasnt too good on the desktop and had many > incompatibilities but as a fair bit of time has passed I am compiling it > again and will try it soon. As far as the 2.4 releases were concerned

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread William Kenworthy
"emerge sources -s" will list all available sources. It should live alongside 2.4 fine (did in the past), but on complex kitchen sink machines like mine, I will have to see. I am about to try 2.6 mm and see how it goes. I did try an earlier 2.6 vanilla some months back and as others have found,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread Chris
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:55 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: > As a new user of Gentoo, may I ask a dumb question... How would one go > about trying this new kernel? > > I imagine I need to emege something, then run menuconfig and compile, > but are there instructions someplace on just what to do? An

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6 going back on topic, maybe....

2004-02-13 Thread Linux Gentoo
As a new user of Gentoo, may I ask a dumb question... How would one go about trying this new kernel? I imagine I need to emege something, then run menuconfig and compile, but are there instructions someplace on just what to do? And will I be able to save all my 2.4 related files in case somethin