How To Update A Kernel
 

Can anyone tell what do you mean updating a kernel...
i have suse 10.2 installed ....
can i make it use 10.3 by updating the kernel...

tell me whole procedure and the place frm where i can get the new kernel..

the kernel is the very core of a distribution, just like any other program, that too can be upgraded. 10.3 is not a kernel. it might be a valid kernel version in 20 years, but no we're in the 2.6.23 region. to be honest the best answer to how to do it is to not do it... you haven't given any reasons as to why you'd want to and without a valid reason there's no point. you will not benefit. that said yast will presumably automate replacement packages when it has them.

Thank you for ur information.

Mr. there r some things u never havea valid reason for learning . you want to learn because u have the desire to learn and u will learn it any way....

ok if im not getting answer here i m going to learn it from somewhere else and then i will post a new how to update your kernel and then lets see how others don't learn it.

it doesn't matter what kernel version you have, suse 10.2 will still be 10.2 unless you upgrade it to 10.3.
to upgrade a kernel, I would compile a new kernel from kernel.org

wow, erm... impressive reply... :confused:

How To Compile A Kernel - The SuSE Way
 

This howto should be able to walk you through it. It's written for SuSE 10.1 but the same process should apply.

link to follow.

SuSE Kernel
 

As to the poll
 

I left Windows completely because of the WGA. I absolutely refuse to leave the running of my system to the vagaries of a corporate master determining that my system is illegal when I know that it is not. Not an option for me.

The other reason I left is that I found I was spending hours per week just running utilities to defrag, de-malware, de-spyware, de-piracy ware, de-spamware, etc. With Linux I got those hours back with no loss of security.

I also found that the overhead of running Windows made my computer run slower than it did with Linux.

Put the above together and leaving Windows was a no-brainer. I am not into computer games and I found a way to run most of the videos I wanted without Windows so why put up with all the crap. Scrapped Windows and have not missed it a bit.

My thoughts, exactly. Been windows-free for 14 months and loving it!

Cheers

I wanted a dual boot system to experiment a little with Linux but I didn't RTFM good enough and ended with a zero boot system. Since I had only a restoration disk for Windows XP and a full set of CentOS 4 disks, it was quite easy to leave Windows completely :D.
It was unintended and by accident but using and administrating CentOS and Ubuntu was so much easier than anticipated that I got over my initial worries immediately. It's been more than a year since the big bang, I've tried a dozen distros and I'm using my computer better and more creatively than I ever did with Windows. I may want Windows back just to play all the games again I'd bought but as my main OS I'm very pleased with GNU/Linux/X/KDE based systems.

does it mean first i have to think whether for which distro i have to compile kernel then i have to compile...istn't it a distribution independent phenomena......

Hi,

My thoughts exactly !!!!

I just "said no" to Bill Gates!
 

I have been Windows free since October and am loving it! Gutsy is good. I had a few challenges, but I am enjoying the learning curve ride.
Merry Christmas to all!

And on a completely unrelated matter: that poll makes no sense.

I dislike windows because it's inferior and pest-riddled.


Cheers,
Tink

And in other news, water is wet, and fire is hot. Film at 11
:p

It IS distribution independent. The howtos are distribution focused to make it easier for you.

A lot of times you can use your distribution's package manager to handle "installing" the source code. Sometimes it's easier to do it using the package manager than to use the tarballs.

Windoze-free since 2003
 

I have been Windoze-free since 2003. After more than a decade of struggling to stabilise Windoze, I'd had enough. I abandoned the Micro$oft vision of world domination, and never looked back. Welcome aboard, PlantMan!

Leaving Windows
 

I had to vote yes on this because there was no option for "I haven't used Windows since 1993." All my work and home systems have run and will continue to run Linux (or occasionally some other *NIX flavor).

The question is moot
 

The question is moot... What really matters is what kind of apps you intend to run. MS Office is by far the best word processor there is, to make a specific example. There are eg quite a few addon apps for Word that is a must have that just won't work with OpenOffice (implied if running linux). To cut it shortly, linux does some things really good and so does windows. What OS is the best is so eighties (and slightly moronic to ask nowadays 8-) and as such completely of no consequence whatsoever. My two oere...

Heh. "What OS is the best is so eighties (and slightly
moronic to ask nowadays 8-) and as such completely of
no consequence whatsoever."

About as funny (or moot) as stating that Word is the best
word processor. I find it hard to use, counter-productive
and a major pain in the proverbial. As far as I'm concerned
people should be using LaTeX ;} and not bother with word
processors in the first place.


Cheers,
Tink

saying MS Office is the best is a matter of opinion, I could just as well say IE 6 is the best web browser invented

To each their own. 8-)

FWIW, I refer to pre-MS Office 2007 offices. The latest incarnation is, well to put it mildly, not that user-friendly and really rather clunky and cumbersome IMO.

You'd be surprised how many die-hard-linux users revert to MS Word when it comes to writing sci-papers with references using Endnote (although they probably won't admit to it). I work at a uni. I've seen it all. 8-]

I only know of one guy who claims using latex; he supposedly wrote his senior high final paper (this is a diffucult-to-translate-swedish school-level paper) using latex and linux v1.somethingorother in the mid 90s. Supposedly took him three times longer or whatever, including time to start over using Word, before giving *that* up and goinf back to latex.

Personally I prefer vi in both windows and linux... 8-)

Of course. That's what I tried to say. It all depends on what apps you plan to use, and that in itself is further split down to personal preferences.

To again use a specific example, I prefer using MS Word for my word-processing needs. I also use vi for my smaller editing needs in both windows and linux, which's another example.

And I've seen people despair over trying to write their thesis
in winword (1, ..., 97-2003) and happily modifying it in Open
Office after word garbled it.

And I know ones who needed to do Scientific papers and gave up
on Word quickly, and even learnt how to use LaTeX from scratch (and
being very happy with the move) because they didn't need to worry
much about anything ever after. Some of them love LaTeX so much,
they carry on using it after University, and some of them even
included LaTeX messages into their daily life, e.g. exclaiming
"Badness 2000!""


Good on yah.


Cheers,
Tink

I wiped the windows partition and installed my original copy of XPHome in VirtualBox on my Mepis 7 host.

linux is gr8.....windows lies nowhere