Re: [PLUG] Steps to compile 2.6.x kernel from source for Redhat 8.0/9 base. And get Fedora updates

[Ben Dugan <bdugan@curdes.com>]

Dan Widyono wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:42:22PM -0400, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
>
> > 1) Bleeding edge desktop, upgrade your distro every six months.  
> > Free as in speech & beer.  Fedora 
> > Core is your answer.  If you go this way, wait a week or so for Fedora 
> > Core 2 to come out which already has the 2.6 kernel and other new goodies.
>
>
> Or cAos 1.0.
>
>
> > 3) Conservative enterprise distro, desktop & server, distro lasts as long 
> > as the hardware.  Commercial support agreement optional.  Free as in 
> > speech & beer.  CentOS 3.1.  Free clone of RHEL 3.0.  This is what I'm now 
> > running at $WORK in a post-RH9 world.
>
>
> Or Fermi Lab's Scientific Linux 3.0.1 (or LTS 3.0.1 but that has more
> Fermi-specific RPM's), which I am now testing at $WORK::WIDYONO.
>
> Or TaoLinux 1.0.
>
> Or do what they're all doing: purchase one copy of RHEL, install, install all
> source RPM's and pull out RH-specific logs and trademarks, recompile your own
> distro, install from that, distribute.  But that's for people with a lot of
> $TIME on their hands.

Well, since we're having a little 'distro-review' thread here, I just 
want to chime in briefly:

I was _amazed_ at the effortless-ness of running Knoppix on a laptop I 
have (a Compaq 2175US), especially after some headaches I'd had getting 
Debian going on it.  So I looked around on the Knoppix site for an iso 
that I could install to the hard drive.  Somehow I missed it, although 
I've heard since then that there is one.

Instead, I went to Morphix, mainly because its based on Knoppix.  I love 
Morphix.  It strikes me as a quick, easy way to install Debian.  In my 
case I got a good working system with things like sound and good X 
settings with no tweaks necessary.  Which makes "tweaks" tweaks, rather 
than hassles.  It was $WORKing in no$TIME.

Ben


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