Jea, so it is. It does not affect your system if you use a common kernel from www.kernel.org. I was as curious as you and simply tried it out, which means I built the kernel 2.4.19 - and it works fine! As long as you don't wish to implement esoteric features, your system will still reboot.
But pay attention! NEVER erase your old kernel! Edit the right lines in grub.conf or lilo.conf! And: always take kernels whose second numbers can be divided by two - these are the stable ones (e.g. 2.0.14, 2.2.5, 2.4.18, but never 2.5.12 or 2.3.7). My attempt to kompile a development kernel and afterwards to restart my system failed. Thus, they are under development! Perhaps read a how-to for more information on building kernels. Regards, Arthur On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 13:09, Nick Lindsell wrote: > At 22:55 18/12/2002 +1100, you wrote: > >What I mean is, if I went to say www.kernel.org and downloaded to latest > >development kernel, or even just a later one that red hat is not using > >yet, say 2.4.20, would it affect my system. > >In other words, when I say standard release, one that red hat has not > >released through their update feature, nor supported. > >thanks Greg > > > The RedHat kernel tree differs from the "standard" (i.e Linus' tree) in that > they include many extra features. It is most likely that your machine will > run with a standard kernel but some of the more esoteric peripherals > may not work. My particular example is that of the Hauppage video grabber > - there is no support by default in a standard kernel (you have to apply > the relevant patches yourself) but a RedHat kernel runs it fine because > RedHat include the bttv drivers in their kernel. > So unless you are doing something really unusual with your machine > a standard kernel will run it - or at least not break it - and you can always > reboot to a RH kernel if the standard one doesn't work out. Of course > the RH update will no longer do kernel upgrades so you are on your > own when it comes to kernel security.... > > 0,1 > nick@nexnix > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
