** Reply to message from Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:53:25 +0200 > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 12:00, jdow wrote: > > He should download the release 2.4.21 in full and then make it. Red Hat > > kernels have patches already applied that make incremental patches from > > the kernel tree likely to fail. > > RedHat kernels do contain patches, like NPTL backport from 2.5, that are > not on the mainline 2.4.21 kernel. Compiling a vanilla 2.4.21 will > surely make things like GNOME to break or start working erratically. Complete and utter nonsense. Running a 2.4.21 here and my system is rock solid. I don't really have anything that would benefit mightily from the NPTL backport anyway. jb
