[Sussex] Kernel 2.6.0

John D. big-john at dsl.pipex.com
Fri Dec 19 00:45:14 UTC 2003


On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 10:46 pm, Geoff Teale wrote:
<snip>
>
> In gentoo you will find a large number of kernel's  available in
> portage.  The kernel packages reside in /usr/portage/sys-kernel.
>
> The dev sources fro the 2.6 kernel have been available for quite some
> time (I've been running on development versions of this kernel for
> several months now).
>
> For the moment though, I'd stick with getting your system up and running
> before you try upgrading to a new kernel version - you may find this is
> a little more challenging than an upgrade between two version of 2.4
</snip>

Ok Geoff, thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look at the 
/usr/portage/sys-kernel and then see what's available about upgrading the 
2.4.20 version to the 2.4.23 (as per the suggestion from the various security 
boffins)

regards

John D.




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