Re: [newbie] Getting confused with kernels...

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Jeremy Mann wrote: Does the same thing exist between 2.0 and 2.1? I recently installed Mandrake 5.3 (kernel 2.0.36) and I tried my hand at compiling the 2.1 kernel supplied on the disk. Version 2.1.x kernels are all development models, and may therefore (at least in theory) have

Re: [newbie] Getting confused with kernels...

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, you wrote: Version 2.1.x kernels are all development models, and may therefore (at least in theory) have more, and more serious, bugs than "production" (2.0.x, 2.2.x, etc.) kernels. If you were going to upgrade, your better bet would probably be to upgrade to

[newbie] Getting confused with kernels...

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
You should also update your kernel to 2.2.9-27mdk because it fixes a problem that could under some bad circumstances lead to filesystem errors. LLaP bero Should we instead wait for 2.2.10-xmdk? 2.2.10 is out now...(I thought the 2.2.9 was supposed to be _stable_ for a long while?!) --