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Originally posted by spooge a kernel thing again ...
1gb ram on its way. kernel upgrades were entirely done from "up2date", should i remove the rpm'd kernels, or just d/l and compile.?
A RedHat RPM'ed kernel is kinda like a salad bar fit to everyone's taste... they've even included that jello thing with floating orange peels in it, and you just don't need that: download and compile. Keep whatever old kernels you have around... heck, you can have 16 I think under LILO, more under Grub...
Remember to maximize for your architecture and remember in the top level to turn on "High Memory Support"
Originally posted by spooge ok simple question again...
all aplications were compiled, will they be ok, after i compile a new kernel?
Yep, fine. The last big neurosis was between 2.4.10 and later where new modules wouldn't compile against older kernels... blah blah blah, yeah mod-utils is the only ever worry and as far as I know, you could compile and run a 2.2.x kernel and nothing will flake. A 2.5.x will have some issues...
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