RE: Mor on cheeplinux...

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

You can swap kernels as you wish but some dists have special provisions,
like SuSE comes with a personally licensed (here we go again...) copy of
OSS linked to the dist & kernel version. There's nothing to stop you
mixing & matching so long as you observe dependencies in the dist you are
using.

You could make a real homebrew for instance with a vanilla kernel & a
bunch of Alan Cox's patches.

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Bob Ham wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Paul Sims wrote:
> 
> > it is but..... some vendors include their own kernel patches. SuSE & 
> > Mandrake for instance have their own custom patched kernels, with names 
> > like vmlinuz-2.2.14-suse or vmlinuz-2.2.14.mdk.15 to identify them from 
> > vanilla kernels.
> 
> I see.  But surely you can grab a kernel from whatever distro and shove
> it in to your own if you know that vendor-kernel has extra code in it?
> 
> Bob
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