[Sheflug] 2.4.4

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> Dear All Just downloaded and compiled a vanilla 2.4.4
    Richard> kernel from www.kernel.org in bz2 format and compiled it.
    Richard> It works with my SuSE 7.1 workstation.

    Richard> Previously I tried 2.4.0, 2.4.2, and 2.4.3.  All of them
    Richard> exited with at least two error messages.  Even the sound
    Richard> works and so does everything else.  Haven't seen a kernel
    Richard> compile that smooth for at least a year.

    Richard> Following the advice of the SuSE security team I won't be
    Richard> using it on my net facing box.

Wierd - I've been running 2.4.x since the early test releases, only
one failed (-test7 I think).

What sort of problems have you been having?

I've been ignoring SuSE for a while now - my firewall is, and will
stay an IPTables/2.4 machine :-)

Baz.


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