Eli,
most of those changes appear inside the next official kernel, and if you want
the full features of redhat - just use the newest standard kernel + alan cox
latest ac patch..
For now, regarding to all the stuff with fork() functions etc I would suggest
to use 2.4.5pre1 or pre2 which will come as I write this email..
Hetz
On Friday 04 May 2001 15:27, Eli Marmor wrote:
> Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Well, as the subject says - vmware 2.0.4 is out, which should fix all the
> > 2.4.x based kernel based distributions (Mandrake 8, SuSE 7.1, Redhat 7.2,
> > etc)
> >
> > Please note - you'll have to upgrade to kernel 2.4.4 if you plan to run
> > Linux distribution as a guest OS with kernel 2.4.x - see this:
> > http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/common/whatsnew_204.html
>
> By the way - this question has concerned me for some time - are there
> RPMs of 2.4.4 *SPECIFIC* to the various distributions?
>
> Description:
>
> Each distribution inserts many patches and improvements into the standard
> Linus' kernel. While it's a piece of cake to upgrade the special 2.4.3
> kernel to the standard 2.4.4, you give up, by this step, all the special
> features that are specific to the distribution, and sometimes there are
> other packages in the distribution that prefer kernels with those
> specific improvements.
>
> Are there 2.4.4 kernels for RH/Mandrake ?
> Where can they be downloaded from?
>
> The question is important because the difference between 2.4.4 (plus the
> latest AC patches which fix some broken things) and 2.4.3 are huge: Not
> only the above problem (VMware), but also performance (dramatically
> improved implementation of fork(), and zero-copy networking), and even
> security (13 patches which were contributed by OpenWall for 2.2.19, and
> ported to 2.4.4).
>
> Thanks,
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