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Kernel 2.2 - It Lives!
Build6 writes "For those of us still using 2.2 (how's that for "conservatism" eh?) -- 2.2.24 is out (and has been since last week) - see kernel.org for downloads. I see networking code tweaks, but no changelog. Time to give our old RH 6.2 machines one last kernel-recompile before Red Hat's end-of-life date arrives for 6.2? :-) What I'd like to know is - who else (besides me) out there still has machines running 2.2 and intends to keep it that way?"
2.2? I'm still running 2.1... Works great (as a firewall)... then again, it's only a 486 DX2 66... so I don't dare fiddle with it... It might turn to dust from old age...
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kernel 1.0.1
It kind of itches a little.
Is it stable enough for prime-time yet? I'm not "upgrading" my 2.0 boxes until I'm sure it is.
Did anyone ever fix the uptime rollover thing? That's what I'm really waiting for. I'm sick of rebooting every year and a half.
Sanders Kernel? I always know to trust the Kernel.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
I don't know, I'm always torn between losing my uptime and installing the latest kernel. Its a lose/lose situation. If slashdot wouldn't announce the new 2.2 kernel I could just go on believing I had the latest code and it wouldn't bother me. But now that I know there's a new kernel, I'll have to compile it and bear the pain of losing my (not much, but around 130 days now) uptime. Thanks again for dragging me out of my sheltered update life.
Cthulhu Saves.
Huh? 2.0 is ready for prime time? Why didn't someone tell me? I'm still using 1.2!
What have I been eating, then?
Do you like German cars?
This newfangled Linux thing seems a bit risky. Minix is definitely the way to go.
May we never see th
If you've got dual 2.2G Xeons for your 'play machine', what's your main box look like?
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
My main box is a typewriter. I have it connected to my friend's typewriter in another apartment with a copper wire and we just type 1's and 0's back and forth. I think I might upgrade sometime soon.
I am sure it would be a Plucky little distro. We could showcase it at a Birds of a Feather meeting in Silicon Valley.
I could relabel the various bits of the OS, Call the whole system 'The Sky' as in 'the skies the limit'and if there was any problems a little yellow baby chicken graphical agent ala Clippy we'll call Chicken Little will run about the screen yelling 'The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!" If you chase him with your mouse and can click on him he won't reboot your system. Kind of like what would happen if you were using a windows box.
If not I could sell it to Jeff Bezo. He could call it One Cluck computing.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
cd /usr/src/linux
perl -i -e 's/^PATCHLEVEL = 4$/PATCHLEVEL = 2/' Makefile
All the benefits of 2.4, with the beautiful, symmetric numbering of 2.2.
"I'll say it again for the logic-impaired." -- Larry Wall.
...nobody can be told about his main box. They must see it for themselves. :(
Don't upgrade to 2.4! If you do, then Linux will never beat FreeBSD in the uptime department!
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
His main box is all around you. Its in this very room. When you go to work, when you go to church, when you watch television........ its a prison that you can not taste, see or touch.
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Never been known to fail..."