Re: Distributions with 2.0 yet?

Jared Mauch (jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:50:42 -0400 (EDT)


I'm looking for something like debian, I don't want to have
to upgrade stuff at all...


- Jared

Theodore Y. Ts'o graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> From: Jared Mauch <jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:29:14 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Does anyone know of distributions (slackware, redhat, caldera)
> that have a 2.0 kernel standard, w/ all the utilities that go
> with it yet?
>
> Debian and Redhat are the two distributions that I know that are using
> the 2.0 kernel. Debian-1.1 comes with the 2.0 Kernel in its base
> install.
>
> With RedHat, you have to install the Redhat 3.0.3 distribution, and then
> grab approximately 10 RPM packages to upgrade to the 2.0 kernel. All
> you have to do is grab all of the files in:
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/updates/2.0-kernel/RPMS
>
> Just put them in a directory, say /tmp/upgrade, and then run
> "rpm --upgrade *". Quite easy!
>
> - Ted
>