Linux 2.5.54... a treat!

[Aaron Grewell]

There are several packages that have to be updated for the new kernel to
work properly, some of which are as ever-changing as the development
kernel itself.  The ones I remember were e2fsprogs, xfsprogs, procps,
modutils, and alsa-utils.  e2fsprogs and xfsprogs were cake, but procps
was big fun.  The devel version by Rik van Riel and Robert Love
consistently rebooted my machine when I ran 'ps'.  I had to get a
different version by a Dr. Calahan (sp?) which seemed to work fine. 
Modutils was replaced by something I think they called module-utils. 
The basics seem to work the same, but I haven't worked out some of the
details yet, especially since the modules.conf syntax has changed.  I
had used alsa before so that wasn't as much of an issue, but it's still
a work in progress.

The box in question was stock Slackware 8.1 before I started messing
with it if that makes a difference.  It is scheduled to be an all-beta
experience, with a devel kernel and associated utils, CVS XFree86, and
the latest RC of KDE.  Should be interesting, if not particularly
stable.

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:55, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 09 January 2003 0:20 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > I've got it on my home lan and my personal lapop. We'll see just how
> > good it is for that purpose... it is beta, but so far it looks ok. As
> > for performance, it seems like all the previous builds.
> >
> >
> > Hmm... just got a message, 2.5.55 is now out for testting... gotta go.
> >
> 
> What else did you have to change?  
> 
> Other packages?
> 
> What version of modutils are you using?
> 
> 
> 
> > :')
> >
> > On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:32:45 -0500 (EST) Net Llama!
> > <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Its nice to know it build cleanly, but how does it run?  I'd be
> > > quite concerned about stability.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > > It's been a while since I tried the 2.5.x kernel tree... and on a
> > > > whim I grabbed a copy of the latest 2.5.54 tarball for something
> > > > to do.
> > > >
> > > > Anyways, it configured and compiled without any extra fuss or
> > > > hacking like some of the previous releases. All in all, it's feel
> > > > pretty sweet.
> > > >
> > > > If you're looking for something to do...
> > >
> > > --
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