2.4.x Finally!

[Sterling]

Hats off to Linus, Alan, and everyone else who worked on the development of this kernel. You guys have been under a lot of pressure by various fronts (*cough* trolls *cough*) to just rush it out the door, including accusations of vaporware from the "good folks" at a couple of computer magazines. I'm glad that it took this long, as I'm sure that the quality of the kernel reflects the long development period.

I'm personally going to wait a couple of releases before upgrading, at the very least until everything needed goes into Debian-testing.

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[Sensei]

Heres an email I got.

I'm not gonna play with 2.4 just yet.


As I was working through the kernel compile NHF, I began reading the
README that is distributed with the 2.4.0 source and saw that Linus says
not to compile in /usr/src while the NHF's direct me to /usr/src to
compile. The README says to compile in /home/me to avoid stale .o's and
such. What's the scoop? Is it kosher to compile in /usr/src or do the
NHF's need to be updated for newer kernels?

Interesting?

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[Sterling]

That was the other thing that worried me. All the other docs I've seen also say to put the kernel source under /usr/src/linux.

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[armando86]

I compiled 2.4 under /usr/src and everything is working fine. Maybe I should RTFM more? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif



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[Craig McPherson]

I've been using 2.4 + ReiserFS since May. No problems, except 2.4.0-test8 wouldn't work with my network card --- everything before and after that worked fine.