From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moose.erie.net([208.138.204.11]) (2053 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:51:40 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from jscp (dap-208-1-140-50.erie-tnt-1.pa.erie.net [208.1.140.50]) by moose.erie.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA01296 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:50:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Envelope-To: Received: from jacobs by jscp with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13m2xP-0000VV-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:49:15 -0400 From: Jacob Schmude MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14830.14075.300777.540888@ncinter.net> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:49:15 -0400 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001018175910.007caaa0@mail.ufw2.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20001015222501.007b6b70@mail.ufw2.com> <3.0.6.32.20001018175910.007caaa0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under Emacs 20.7.2 List-Id: Hi Well I've not installed it yet but one problem jumps out at me just by looking at the rpm files provided. They're using 2.2.16 kernels, but using kernel 2.4 headers? They're mixing versions. If you think your sources are messed up, don't install this! Mixing versions of kernels is going to give trouble, trouble you'll have a hard time getting out of. I'd like to see someone compile a module with that. Either it wouldn't compile at all, or it would be for the wrong kernel version. It makes me wonder if they know what the heck they're doing, or if they're simply obsessed with the latest and greatest! If they use 2.2.16 kernels, use those headers. They sure aren't using 2.4 kernels, yet they use 2.4 headers? What's wrong with this picture? I had problems in general with RH 6. However, if you want rh, go with rh6, but definitely not 7! Brent Harding writes: > Cool, does gateway put it on automatically? I don't know what they say is > so bad with the new redhat 7.0