Re: Programs for kernel rebuild.

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:

> Why does everyone insist on running the latest, greatest kernel, unless
> they've got a need for the latest, greatest hardware support.

Don't know about "everyone", but as long as I see stuff like "IDE
Driver updates" on edge.kernelnotes.org, I download that source.  Plus,
I use ALSA, which is developed against the latest kernel.  Plus, 2.4 has
isapnp support.  When I upgraded from 2.3.48 to 2.3.51, I was very
surprised to see "ide3: AWE64 IDE Controller" which has never happened
before.  Plus, I'm interested in IPv6.

I'm one of those "bleeding edge" users.  Usually I've downloaded,
recompiled and installed a new kernel before Linux people I know have
even heard about it :)

Bob

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