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I'd like to announce a the availability of unpacked vendor kernel RPMs on www.kernelnewbies.org. We allow taking a look at the specfile and the various patches included in that packages. Currently the follwing kernel packages are prvovided (others are of course welcome):

	Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 (linux-2.4.2-11)
	Red Hat Linux 7.1 (kernel-2.4.2-2)

Please take a look at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/

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Quoted 10 lines · Christoph Hellwig

I'd like to announce a the availability of unpacked vendor kernel RPMs on www.kernelnewbies.org. We allow taking a look at the specfile and the various patches included in that packages. Currently the follwing kernel packages are prvovided (others are of course welcome):

	Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 (linux-2.4.2-11)
	Red Hat Linux 7.1 (kernel-2.4.2-2)

Please take a look at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/

Please put RH 2.4.3-12 kernel online, instead. I guess that 99% of the people out there that read lk and/or understand what you did, have little interest on an outdated kernel package. Of course this applies to Caldera's kernel updates (if any), too.

.TM.

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I'd like to announce a the availability of unpacked vendor kernel RPMs on www.kernelnewbies.org. We allow taking a look at the specfile and the various patches included in that packages. Currently the follwing kernel packages are prvovided (others are of course welcome):

	Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 (linux-2.4.2-11)
	Red Hat Linux 7.1 (kernel-2.4.2-2)
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Please take a look at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/

Please put RH 2.4.3-12 kernel online, instead. I guess that 99% of the people out there that read lk and/or understand what you did, have little interest on an outdated kernel package. Of course this applies to Caldera's kernel updates (if any), too.

I'm not too happy with that as there are just too many kernel updates in a product livecycle.

Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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Quoted 14 lines · Christoph Hellwig
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Quoted 10 lines · Christoph Hellwig

I'd like to announce a the availability of unpacked vendor kernel RPMs on www.kernelnewbies.org. We allow taking a look at the specfile and the various patches included in that packages. Currently the follwing kernel packages are prvovided (others are of course welcome):

	Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 (linux-2.4.2-11)
	Red Hat Linux 7.1 (kernel-2.4.2-2)

Please take a look at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/

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Please put RH 2.4.3-12 kernel online, instead. I guess that 99% of the people out there that read lk and/or understand what you did, have little interest on an outdated kernel package. Of course this applies to Caldera's kernel updates (if any), too.

I'm not too happy with that as there are just too many kernel updates in a product livecycle.

I guess you'll keep the major distro release up to date. These are the kernel released by RH since 6.2 (not sure of the dates):

kernel-2.2.14-5.0 Mar 2000 - Red Hat 6.2
kernel-2.2.14-12 Apr 2000
kernel-2.2.16-3 Jun 2000

kernel-2.2.16-22 Sep 2000 - Red Hat 7
kernel-2.2.17-1 Feb 2001

kernel-2.4.2-2 Apr 2001 - Red Hat 7.1
kernel-2.4.3-12 Jun 2001

The kernel is a moving target. If you can deal with more than a distribution, you can deal with 1 or 2 kernel updates per release, IMVHO.

You know, outdated info if useless info.

.TM.

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Marco Colombo <[email protected]> said:

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The kernel is a moving target. If you can deal with more than a distribution, you can deal with 1 or 2 kernel updates per release, IMVHO.

Just as it makes no sense to run a not-up-to-date release kernel, it makes no sense to keep anything but the very last on line. Just MVHO.

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Please put RH 2.4.3-12 kernel online, instead.

I'm not too happy with that as there are just too many kernel updates in a product livecycle.

Agreed. Just maintaining an archive of 'what kernel was released on which CD' is enough work already. Adding a ptr to each vendors area of updates is probably the next thing to add though.

btw: I just added SuSE 7.2 to the list.

regards,

Dave.

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