How To Upgrade Linux To The 2.6 Kernel

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a good computer project for the long labor-day weekend. KernelTrap has posted a howto detailing eight steps to upgrade your GNU/Linux OS from the 2.4 stable kernel to the 2.6.0-test development kernel. Complete with screen shots, the end result sounds to be well worth the effort." Since chances are most people will be upgrading anyway once 2.6 is deemed release-worthy, it's always worth learning the upgrade procedure well.

Comments

Re:Advantage: Bill

[Nicolas MONNET]

Bollocks, those steps are only intended for those who want to try the BETA kernel. End users will just use whatever kernel is provided by their distribution, and won't have to deal with any of that shit.

Re:Advantage: Bill

[TheRaven64]

Don't forget that this is a lowest common denominator tutorial. The only people who will upgrade this way are hard-core geeks. Debian users will simply use apt to grab a package containing the latest kernel, RedHat users will use up2date to do the same thing. Of course the easiest way of upgrading will probably be to pop a RedHat 10 (or whatever) CD in your drive and click on the upgrade button...