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Shienarier
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 Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject: Unstable kernels? |
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| I am rather tired waiting for hardened-sources 2.6, and i am wondering how dangerous it is to use an unstable kernel (that is, marked ~x86 in the portage tree)? |
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vonhelmet
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spb
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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If it's in the portage tree at all, it's probably quite stable enough for desktop usage at least. For a production server, I'd think twice before using unstable anything, however.
BTW, if you want a hardened 2.6 kernel, try hardened-dev-sources. |
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Shienarier
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't really know how to use that stable back up kernel if i ran into problems.
I thought hardened-dev-sources was the hardened-sources 2.6? |
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spb
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Shienarier wrote: | | I thought hardened-dev-sources was the hardened-sources 2.6? |
It is. Some people still want to use 2.4 hardened-sources, so it needs a different name. It works quite decently; use it if you want, and you shouldn't have any insurmountable problems. |
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eean
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Shienarier wrote: | I wouldn't really know how to use that stable back up kernel if i ran into problems.
I thought hardened-dev-sources was the hardened-sources 2.6? |
I always have symlinks /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/vmlinuz.old that point to the newest and second to newest kernels respectively. Then have a Grub entry for both and switching between one kernel and the other is trivial. |
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Shienarier
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:54 am Post subject: |
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When i was installing my new kernel, i realised that i just had to keep my old one as an alternative during bootup :-)
Now i have the new kernel installed and it all works.
Thanks a lot. |
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