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Linux 2.4.21 released
Just a quick note to let you all know that linux 2.4.21 has been deemed stable engoth to become final It was released on friday 13th :eek: and is now out on the kernel.org website.
This will probally become one of the final releases of the 2.4.xx seris before the 2.5.xx test branch becomes stable 2.6.xx
You can view the changelog here
If you've never built a kernel before its not as hard as it sounds, You just pick the bits that you need and away you go :) A great site for helping you is Kernelnewbies
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Yup, I downloaded it yesterday..
I must say I havn't ran into any trouble yet..
just a
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.21
cp ../linux-2.4.20/.config .
make oldconfig
make menuconfig (just to check out some new stuff)
make dep && make modules -j4 && make modules_install install
reboot
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Yep I just built myself it last night, And it seems to be working fine
Heres the output of uname -a
Linux Godfather 2.4.21Cheesegoduk #3 Sun Jun 15 00:21:06 BST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
To add the extra bit after the 2.4.21 bit where I have cheesegoduk, Edit the makefile in the kernel source where it says EXTRAVERSION= Just type what you want to appear there.(Thanks to redgore for telling me this)
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Are there any upgrades since 2.4.19?
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Updates
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OMG...........I had no idea. LOL. :)
