could compile kernel from kernel.org for fedora?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jul 12 17:52:45 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:37:21PM +0800, Zhen Zhou wrote:
> Thanks a lot. On the other words--if I want to compile new kernel, for
> instance, 2.6.17 or newer, the system should be upgrade to fedora
> release 5 in the end. That is not a good news for me.
> Is there any choices? because I only want to use upgrade the newer
> kernel, and taste new function, like pptp-nat, l7-filter and so on.
> Any tips? TIA

You can't eat your cake and still have it -- if you want the newest and
latest stuff, you can't have the old version of a distro.

Fedora Core 3 is also only supported by Fedora Legacy for security updates;
you'll be better off with FC5 or newer for other reasons as well.


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