[ale] Precompiled kernels

[Chris Ricker]

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Michael B Golden wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:50:48 -0400 UnderGrid Founder
> <undrgrid at UnderGrid.net> writes:
> >	This is both true and false though... I know if you run Debian 
> >then slink has a few things that need to be upgraded (less than half a 
> >dozen IIRC) although potato didn't need to get anythin upgraded to run
> the 2.2 
> >kernels... Of course I can't talk about RH... and everyone knows
> Slackware always 
> >requires manual upgrades...

Yes and no.  Potato didn't need anything for you, but only because you
weren't using some of the 2.2 features it doesn't support correctly (or at
least didn't when I tried it).  I had to upgrade a few packages by hand to
get it working....

> 	Hmm, do the kernels have the libc5 vs. glibc2 issues too? I don't
> run Debian yet, but will when I get my personal system running. I run
> Slackware 3.5 currently, and now I see that I would have to use up a ton
> of disk space just to try to make it work. Could I pull 2.0.36 off of the
> RH5.2 CD? Or does it have compatibility issues (such as libc)? If that
> doesn't work, does anyone have a Slackware system running 2.0.36 with all
> the options that are included in the precompiled kernels but also with
> sbpcd and sound support? If, so, I would like to talk privately about
> getting it. :) 

My recommendation would be that you look at slackware-current on
ftp.cdrom.com.  It's supposed to be 2.2-ready, and while it's not there yet,
it has more recent libc5 binaries for most of the stuff that you need (yes,
slackware is valiently remaining out-of-date and refusing to switch to a
glibc2.1 base).  It also has pre-compiled kernels which should work with
your system, though they're 2.2, not 2.0.

> P.S. I have just learned that my dad has installed LinuxPPC along with
> MacOS on his laptop at work. He hasn't played much with it yet, but it
> seems to run okay. Any tips I can give him to persuade him to use it more
> or for more purposes?

Having no idea what your dad does, not really.  You do realize that Linux
isn't the end-all, be-all, and there are situations in which it might be
more appropriate to run, say, MacOS?

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                                  chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu