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Kernel 2.2 - It Lives!

Posted by michael on from the if-it-ain't-broke dept.

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?"

15 of 476 comments (clear)

  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From the "who cares?" department...

  2. b0 by sillobalso · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    8th ps0t

  3. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i said it first...

  4. Gnome 2.2- It's dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I just got around to compiling it today, and they write a proper desktop enviornment!

    1. Stupid buttons are the wrong way round (no, yes)
    2. File dialogue still sucks
    3. Nautilus is faster, yet unstable
    4. Can't change the colour scheme of the widgets without hacking textfiles
    5. No mousewheel activated desktop switching
    6. Anti aliased terminal emulator (what the fuck were they thinking)


    I will stay will kde 3.1 thank you very much, as it dosen't treat you like an aol for mac user.

    Oh wait, you said kernel verison, nope, I use kernel 2.4.18-4GB (the kernel from suse 8.0).
  5. Not me.. I prefer BSD by Beetjebrak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I switched to FreeBSD the moment I tried RedHat 6.0. Redhat seemed spartan, unfinished, and tried to do way too many things automatically for me that it just wasn't very good at. Also bloat was already quite abundant in the default install.
    FreeBSD doesn't give me all this trouble. The ports system is wonderful. make world compiles the whole system, make kernel finishes it off. All clean and optimized binaries including every port I intend to run and nothing more. Clean and simple init process too.
    I now have Gentoo on my desktop (like so many distro's before it) to check it out, and I like it so far. But for my servers I pick FreeBSD 4.x over any Linux 2.2.xx kernel.

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  6. Is it just me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or is there absolutely NOTHING on slashdot with any actual value to anyone right now?

    the front page is shit, shit, and more shit. its kind of ridiculous.

    i remember when going to slashdot was fun, but now its gay. In fact, most of the time I go to Trolltalk before I visit the main page (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=20721) because Vlad making an assfaggot out of himself is always more entertaining and worthwhile then the shit that has been here lately.

    I guess this is pretty much the end of Slashdot. All-time low subscription rates with no real benefit is going to kill them.

    So long, and thanks for the memories!

  7. Internet Radio Linking Project by Jenolen · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    For those of you who have not heard of it, the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) is a system created by David "VE7LTD" Cameron, a ham radio operator from Vancouver, British Columbia. The system uses VOIP technology to link two radios together over the internet runs entirely on linux. The first release of his software was packaged with a Red Hat 6.2 CD and most users are still running this setup. I have the original 6.2 running, and it has been rebooted once in several months. (Due to a DDOS attack on the entire subnet that the box was on. It rebooted itself and started working fine again.)

    The IRLP system uses gpg for encryption and authentication to prevent rouge users from connecting and taking control of machines over the network. Several of these systems are located in remote locations and the operators maintain them over SSH. It is not likely that they will be upgraded anytime soon.

    The project has moved forward since the beginning and released versions packaged with RH 7.1, 7.3, and 8.0.

    For more information, check out www.irlp.net

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  8. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kernel lives you?

  9. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How know I? I not talk English, comrade!

  10. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not sure what "getting kerneled" means. Is it like, when you have, say, a car accident and end up in a wheelchair, you say "Whoa man! I sure got kerneled by life! It sucks!"?

  11. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah. And what's the deal with airplane food? I mean, it tastes awful!

  12. I'm topping out at RH7.3 by handybundler · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Current and the 2.4.18-26.7x .Athlon Kernel.

    Bought the boxed version of 8.0 and hatted it. So I re-installed 7.3 Professional and bought some RH annual service. Yep.

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  13. Awesome! by black+people · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'm aware of a few x-box Linux distributions that use the 2.2 series. Other than that, the only use I could think of would be embedded applications.

    By the way, the laptops that I'm selling for $100 support the 2.2 series of Linux kernels.

    Buy one at fuckthat.org

  14. Re:must be... by Scoria · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1, Hilarious!

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  15. Reboot boy. Here ya go, reboot boy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.byteandswitch.com reboots after two years

    Last month we pointed out a Windows 2000 site that had gone over two years without a reboot.

    Unfortunately, www.byteandswitch.com's proud run came to an end coinciding with the SQL-Slammer worm at the end of January.