On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, you wrote:
>On 28-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to say:
>>
>> I need a little clairification on this kernel 2.2 thing. If I buy
>> SuSE 6.0 with, presumably kernel 2.0.36, then want to upgrade to
>> 2.2 (whatever), would I have to download each patch from 2.0.37,
>> 38, etc to 2.2, or just one patch, then recompile (a process I've
>> never had the best of luck with). Also, what is in 2.2 that would
>> make me WANT to recompile? Anybody know? Just curious.
>
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>SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED :)
>On my AMD K5 and Cyrix 6x86 Machines it achieves a speed invrease of around
>30%. Besides that netscape does not die after 3h or so anymore and the Cyrix
>Machine finally got stable enough to run a Oracle Server with 10 clients.
I agree. and if you have a multiprocessor system, the speed increase is
enormous. The new Adaptec SCSI driver is great.
>To use the 2.2 kernel you will need to download the whole 2.2 file from either
>ftp.kernel.org or maybe when a SuSE version comes out from ftp.suse.com and
>compile it.
>
>You will need to throw out the kerneld start files from your start files and
>you will need to update 2 - 3 packages so everything runs smoothly. But, its
>absolutely worth the effort.
Perhaps you could be kind enough to list those packages if you know them :-)
Thank you.
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