Specific Fedora kernel

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:46:24PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 > On Sunday 09 November 2003 18:03, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > Such is life when you ship a heavily patched kernel. One of the things
 > > we're going to try and do for FC2 is keep the kernel as close to mainline
 > > as possible. So far, the only real big change is the addition of
 > > exec-shield.
 > As a matter of interest, why is a special kernel needed at all?

See list archives. I've answered this at least twice in the last few weeks.

 > Can't I just compile the latest 2.4 or 2.6 kernel from www.kernel.org?

Yes, with caveats that you lose the bits we add (see archive).

		Dave