Linux Kernel 2.4.0 or the final version is out !!!!!!!!

najar

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According to LinuxToday's very recent post It is really out!!! Cheers Everyone!!!

:Q:cool::D
 

Sunner

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Maybe thats why kernel.org seems to be down...

Woohoo anyway, the long wait is over :D
 

Elledan

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This is a good time to try out how to update an old Linux install.

It will be my first time... ;)
 

Sunner

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Downloaded, compiled and installed a little while ago.

Worked fine, but broke a few very minor things(some module deps mostly), havent had time to fix yet.

Overall it seemed a little faster, though I havent tested it a whole lot yet.
 

bubba

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What base distro are people installing it to? I have some RH 6.2 systems. Would it be better to update to 7 first, then go to 2.4? I thought that RH7 was 2.4 ready, how bad is 6.2?

 

timco

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I'm currently running the 2.4.0-prerelease on SuSE 7; I don't think it makes much difference which distro you have, but if it's fairly old you might want to update things like modutils and so on.

How to build a kernel? Download the kernel, go into a shell (bash or tcsh), unpack it with tar fzxv <filename> into /usr/src/, cd into /usr/src/linux. Then type &quot;make xconfig&quot; (if you're in X) or &quot;make menuconfig&quot; (if in text-only mode). Select the bits you want, save the configuration you've created, go back to your shell, type &quot;make dep &amp;&amp; make &amp;&amp; make modules &amp;&amp; make install &amp;&amp; make modules_install&quot;. Et voila! If you use lilo, it should pick it up automatically. If you use a Windows boot menu to run Linux, copy it to your C: drive too. There should be some documents that explain this better. When you do the &quot;make menuconfig&quot; or &quot;make xconfig&quot; bit there are some buttons you can press by each config option so you can tell exactly what they do.