From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Axel Siebenwirth Subject: Re: Mandrake 9.1 kernel Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 02:42:01 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030327014201.GA812@neon.pearbough.net> References: <1048719804.1758.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1048719804.1758.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: J S Cc: linux-newbie Hi J! On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, J S wrote: > I noticed at the Mandrake website that Mandrake 9.1 claims to ship with > kernel 2.4.21. The odd thing is that 2.4.21 hasn't been released as a > stable release yet. Does anyone know what they are actually using? Is > it Mandrake's policy to ship the latest prepatches instead of stable Mandrake 9.1 actually comes with a heavily modified 2.4.21-pre5. They are of the opinion that 2.4.20 misses some improvements/fixes that -pre5 does have, so they based their kernel on -pre5. Axel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs