Re: Best solution to experiment with kernel

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El Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:32:05PM +0100 Fernando Apesteguía ha dit:
 
> I would like to know which solution is the best (if there is one who
> is the best...) to experiment with the linux kernel.
> 
> I assume that my real system (I have only 1 computer) is not an option
> (I need my computer to be stable), but I don't know if I should use
> Qemu, UML, Xen, VMWare...

i made some experiments with UML and think it's a good option if you
don't need access to your real hardware.
 
> And the next question would be which distro should I install if I want
> to try with several kernels. This is because I don't want to have
> problems like "This module can not be compiled cause the kernel
> version is not kernel-2.6.19-name_of_the_vendor" (I had similar
> problems before with a well-known linux vendor)

imo debian is a good choice, vanilla kernels usually run and compile
without problems

m.

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