Redhat 5.2 2.2-Kernel Update

An anonymous reader "Red Hat has a set of update rpms that are apparently intended to make 5.2 fully compatible with the 2.2 kernels. (I've been using 2.2.1 since it was released with no ill effects anyway...) " I'm posting this just so people stop emailing me and asking. Besides, the rpms seem to be worki

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While I don't like it, I have to say

[BadlandZ]

While I personally prefer to compile things on my own, I do believe that RPM's for things like a kernel make remote administration much easier for some people (eg multiple servers, some of which have low cpu power despite high bandwidth). Seems that the RPM's are intended to make things more "2.2.x" friendly, but, they don't have a generic 2.2.x kernel in RPM yet. Anyone know why?

I have rpm'ed a few 2.0.x kernels in for upgrades on older boxes (like a 386 that takes 18 hours to compile a kernel on, but rpm's in in 2 minutes), so I do understand thier value. So, I guess I want to know, will the new rpm's break anything in 2.0.x systems, and if they have rpm's to upgrade the stuff needed for 2.2.x, why don't they have a 2.2.x kernel in .rpm?

I do applaud Red Hat for so far waiting, and not jumping to release a 6.0 version with 2.2.x kernel. If they can hold just a little longer, they might be able to use glibc 2.1, gnome 1.0, and kernel 2.2.x... If they do widespread testing before distributing it, it might be cool. Of course, this is going to scream "buggy" despite any amount of beta testing, due to the "new-ness" of so many of the parts... But, wooo... come 6.1, it will probably really rock (if they wait like I hope for 6.0).

problems?

[wren]

(d'oh! previous attempt got munged)

Problems running 2.2 on RH5.2? Buh? I never had a wink of a problem...well, other than needing to hypermodularize everything. Such a vast range of support offered that it's tempting to dig up old hardware and spider it off of my workstation, just to watch it run for the first time in years. :)