kernel

[Bill Davidsen]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 19:35 -0800, john wendel wrote:
>> Stanisław T. Findeisen wrote:
>>> Why doesn't Fedora use vanilla Linux kernel?
>>>
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>> I never run the stock Fedora kernel and I've never had a kernel problem 
>> (that I didn't cause). It's very easy to pick up a vanilla kernel at 
>> kernel.org and configure it exactly the way you want. I do it because I 
>> like to and it saves a few MB on the 512 MB box I use very day.
> 
> IIRC, there are a couple of patches that are necessary for a fully
> functional Fedora kernel.  You may not have encountered those issues,
> but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
> 
> The kernel source RPM can be rebuilt as a nearly vanilla kernel without
> too much trouble.  Then one can install that kernel using RPM and get
> the benefits of packaging without most of the patches, if one wants.  I
> did that a while ago for some testing, and it worked just fine.
> 
> Grab the kernel SRPM, unpack it, and read the SPEC file to see what
> options are needed on the rpmbuild command.  My experience is documented
> someplace in the archives, but I don't have time to hunt it down now,
> and I'm happy with the distro kernels at the moment.
> 
I'm happy in general, but I prefer a faster clock tick for a machine hosting 
multiple KVM virtual machines.

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