Re: Kernel Compiling on different Distro

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:52:57 -0700, Velocity wrote:

I want to know if I download a new kernel from kernel.org and compile
it then would it work on different Linux distributions wether they wont
conflict with existing libraries

suppose I download a new kernel 2.6.20.4 and compile on Open Suse
10.2
and the same kernel is being compiled on Fedora Core 5 or above then
are these kernels depending upon the distribution of our choice or to
use a kernel for a distribution we need to go to some particular site to
download the kernel
I mean for Fedora and Suse the kernels would be different or same to be
downloaded

The kernel will compile with all distros. In theory there could be a
problem with a really old version of GCC but the distros you mentioned
are both modern so they won't have any issues. The only think that you
have to do is to install the development tools including the Xorg and
Gnome tools if you want to use "make gconfig".
.

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