[TriLUG] Best Distro for Latest/Greatest Kernel

tj bimasakti at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 16:25:37 EDT 2007


I totally agree with Debian.

Slackware was a linux distro, that I learn linux at the first time.

I knew debian/slackware  deeply,  when tried  to customized linux system for
company projects.





On 3/20/07, Josh Vickery <josh at vickeryj.com> wrote:
>
> I was faced with the same problem myself recently, and I solved it by
> compiling my own 2.6.20 kernel based off of the config from the Debian
> 2.6.18 kernel I was previously running.  Surprise surprise, things
> changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.20, and I was not terribly pleased with
> the kernel I built.  I started to go down much the same path that you
> are going down now, until I found this post:
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=12430 which pointed me to a
> Debian kernel repository with an experimental 2.6.20
> (http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/).  I tried that
> out and was much happier with it than the one I built for myself.
> Now, you might not be running Debian, so perhaps you could find a
> similar repository for your distro of choice.
>
> On 3/20/07, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/20/07, Shane O'Donnell <shaneodonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > All -
> > >
> > > I'm wanting to mess w/ 2.6.20 but rather than grab a new vanilla
> kernel and
> > > stick it in the middle of my current distro(s) or manually build an
> > > environment out around it, I'm wondering if there's a distro out there
> > > somewhere that may already take this approach and builds a
> comprehensive
> > > "vanilla distro" that focuses on rapid adoption of new kernels.
> >
> > Try this search at Distrowatch:
> > http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=linux&pkgver=2.6.20#pkgsearch
> > There are some Live CDs out there
> > johnm
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