Kernel Upgrade

[Leon A. Goldstein]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Alma,
>
> My suggestion is that you upgrade to a more recent distro, and forget
> about running COL WS 311 completely. I know that sounds like a huge
> leap, and there will definitely be teething troubles, but it may help
> solve your problems more effectively.
>
Take a look at Libranet.  This is a Debian distro, but I believe a
Caldera user will find the transition agreeable.
While Libranet's admin tools (adminmenu) are text based, and not
integrated into KDE as with WS 3.1.1, they
are (relatively) straight forward to use.

>
> Select a distro that has some kind of update tool, like Gentoo or Red
> Hat/Fedora. Ever since I switched to "the accursed distro", and
> installed apt-get, my updating problems have been solved ! And quite
> handily too, because, instead of hunting around for dependencies, I can
> issue a simple apt-get command and it installs everything for me. Yes,
> even kernels.
>
With Debian you get apt-get.  There is a GUI front end: Synaptic.
Libranet will also install RPM's if you can't find the corresponding
Debian packages.

>
> It's been a while since I had to compile a custom kernel of my own, but
> I think the old instructions should still hold true. If you are having
> problems, just send an email to the mailing list.
>
Libranet's kernel tool (text based) makes kernel compiling easy and fool
proof.  If your compile is bad, for some reason,
your old kernel is still functional and selectable in GRUB, which is
updated automatically.

--
Leon A. Goldstein

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