Re: [SLE] migrating to 2.6 kernel

From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 02/27/04

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:06:11 -0500

    On Thursday 26 February 2004 05:43 pm, David M. Fetter wrote:
    > I'm looking into migrating from the 2.4 to the 2.6 kernel under SuSE
    > 9.0. Since it comes with it I'm assuming there really isn't too much
    > difficulty to do this. Are there any caveats or problems in doing
    > this? My main problem however is the potential security vulnerabilities
    > and/or just plain improvements. If I move to the out-of-box 2.6-pre
    > kernel, will suse have newer version available from the online update
    > tool? How about just for getting a stable release of the 2.6 kernel
    > instead of the 2.6-pre? Even though I'm doing this just on my desktop,
    > I still like things to be stable. I'm not much into having a half buggy
    > system to work on. Anybody know anything about this? Thanks.
    >
    > --
    > David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator
    > Portland State University - www.oit.pdx.edu

    Running fine here on a 2.6.3 vanilla kernel from www.kernel.org.

    Make sure you get the latest modules-init-tools also. 

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