[WBEL-users] newbie - kernel and other upgrades questions

[Pete Stevens]

Yes, you are.

The latest kernel version is 2.6.10, the latest 2.4 kernel is 2.4.28.

However, WBEL tracks as close as possible RedHat, and consequently has the
same kernel that Redhat currently use, which is 2.4.21-27, this kernel is
basically 2.4.21 (@kernel.org) plus a bunch of ports of features from the 2.6
tree.

The target for RedHat (and consequently Whitebox) is a stable system that only
receives bugfixes.


Your choices are :->

Prepackaged latest and greatest - try Fedora Core 3
Stable system for long term use - try RHEL / WBEL
Stable system modified with some updates - WBEL + compile your own.

In my opinion, you'd be mad to use a kernel other than the one supplied unless
you have a specific requirement for a feature that's missing (e.g. my virtual
WBEL service uses a 2.6 kernel + custom patches because the 2.4 kernel
series doesn't support virtualisation. However you have to play around
with NPTL in order to make it work.)

Yours,

Pete Stevens

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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Alon wrote:

> http://kernel.org/
>
>  The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is:  2.4.28 2004-11-17 11:56 UTC
>
> Or am I missing something?
>
> - Alon
> js@wsco.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karanbir Singh" <Mail-Lists@karan.org>
> To: "Alon" <js@wsco.com>
> Cc: <whitebox-users@beau.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] newbie - kernel and other upgrades questions
>
>
> > Alon wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Y'all,
> >>  2. How or who updates the kernel? The default that I have on my new box
> >> is:
> >>  2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Sun May 16 01:48:39 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386
> >> GNU/Linux
> >
> > once you have WBEL installed, just use 'yum update' to get all the updates
> > in.
> >>  3. How do I upgrade it to the latest and greatest 2.4.28??
> >
> > 2.4.28 ? where did u get that from ? The latest kernel is 2.4.21-27.0.2
> > which was released less than 12 hrs back.
> >
> >
> > - K
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