[PLUG] Sarge Kernel Compilation

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Tue Jan 4 02:27:40 UTC 2005


On Monday 03 January 2005 6:10 pm, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Robert Kopp wrote:
> 
> > If you go for 2.6 you need to switch to ALSA and stuff like that. Is 
> > this a problem?
> 
> I switched my wife's Debian (testing) box to 2.6 and there were 
> absolutely no hiccups whatsoever. I have a vague memory that I 
> followed a HOWTO to ensure that I'd installed all the correct 
> supporting packages -- but the switchover was incredibly trouble-free. 
> Kudos to all the developers who made that bit of sweetness possible!
> 

See Pluggers, mixed marriages can work! Even Red Hat/Debian marriages.

Debian users can have 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig' just like the other 
Linuxes. 'make config' is for masochists. There are some Debian-specific 
kernel-building utilities that are quite nice; somewhere in the docs on 
http://www.debian.org/doc/ is a howto or two.

One issue I recall reading about with the 2.6 kernel is problems with 
cdrecord; dunno if those are resolved yet.

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