F7 Kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 USB stick
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Wed Aug 1 21:55:02 UTC 2007
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 17:17 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>>> I'm not disagreeing with you about Scientific Linux, which I haven't used,
>>> but CentOS 4 recently had a very large major upgrade from 4.4 to 4.5, which
>>> I, as a new CentOS user hoping for the non-upgrade kind of stability, found
>>> rather upsetting. I was told that CentOS just follows RedHat, which had
>>> just done that to RHEL 4. Is Scientific Linux different?
>> Sure, Scientific Linux has various different majors versions that are
>> currently SL3 and SL4 (SL5 on the way). These are based on EL3 and EL4
>> and very different beasts. You won't find yourself going from SL3 to SL4
>> via yum, unless you choose to try and do that.
>>
>> For sure though SL also has sub-point releases, 3.x and 4.x (currently I
>> am on a 4.5 release), which I think are the equivalents of what you talk
>> about above. These updates I believe can occur through yum. However,
>> I've not aware of any problems in this, its always been pretty flawless.
>> I'm not the sys-admin though, but I never heard him complain (and I
>> suspect I would have) or noticed any problems as a user.
>>
>> maybe SL is better than centos in this regard ?
>
> I don't know, but I doubt it. Both distros are intended to track RHEL
> pretty much exactly. The upgrade to a new point release usually
> involves just installing a rather large number of bugfix updates to
> existing packages.
>
> I recall some discussion from Red Hat of possibly retaining old point
> releases and issuing only security updates for them so that users
> wouldn't have to do the point release thing if they didn't want to.
> That is, one could maintain a RHEL 4.2 system and still get security
> updates even though RHEL 4.5 is current. I don't know where that stands
> at this point, though.
>
>> Chris
>>
>>
Well stupid me, I forgot I saved the working kernel rpm. I found the
rpm and with rpm -i --force I got it installed. It didn't want to
install because of the buggy new ones...
So happy again. My USB memory sticks and all are working and so is skype.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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