On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 19:36, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:29:38PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Sure, one could compile a newer kernel, but that way the Red Hat changes to the kernel (which are often good for demanding apps such as digital recorders) will be lost.
The stated goals of Fedora are to stay as close to mainline upstream as possible. This includes the kernel.
Ok...
[florin@stantz florin]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) [florin@stantz florin]$ uname -r 2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp [florin@stantz florin]$ lynx -dump http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner | grep 2.4 The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.26 [florin@stantz florin]$
That doesn't seem to me like any kind of closeness to the alleged "goals". ;-)