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Linux 2.2.3 Released

Posted by justin++ on from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

Linus has finally released Linux 2.2.3 after several prepatches and lots of testing. Hopefully, it should be the last one for quite awhile. Check out the changes summary on Cutting Edge Linux, and don't forget to use a mirror!

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  1. Kernel, drivers, et al by John+Campbell · · Score: 2

    Easier? To download and keep synchronized trillions of small packages instead of one big one? I doubt it.

    If you're having problems with the size of the download, try using patches. You should be anyway. If you don't like answering 20 trillion questions every time you build a kernel, try "make oldconfig" (you'll need a .config from a previously configured kernel). And if you don't want to store the entire kernel tree, you can always delete the bits you don't use. And if you don't know which bits those are, do you really want to have to keep track of which driver packages contain only those bits?