Update Hell

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, at 10:55am, bayard at tds.net wrote:
> Well, Red Hat 6.2 is fairly old now, but it appears that you
> may need to rebuild your kernel.

  He's running a pre-compiled binary kernel; that really should not apply.  
Unless Red Hat screwed up royally (which is certainly possible), I suspect
the configuration of his installed kernel and supporting modules is slightly
wacked.  It might be a user mistake, or maybe a script guessed wrong
somewhere.

> 2.2.22 is a VERY old kernel ...

  Not really.  It was released the 16th of September of this year.  The 2.2
series is still being actively maintained.  We are not seeing many new
features being added to it, yes, but many of us consider that to be a Good
Thing -- it contributes to a stable operating environment.  Stable may be
boring, but boring is often what one wants.  :)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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