Re: Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 23:31 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Am So den 1. Feb 2009 um 18:57 schrieb Luk Claes: > > > With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. > > > There are many systems out there still running with ke

Re: Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am So den 1. Feb 2009 um 18:57 schrieb Luk Claes: > > With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. > > There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause > > stability. (My servers which needs to be stable

Re: Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:26:30PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. The Linux 2.4 support ended with the Etch release. Even for Etch it is only supported for upgrades. > Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny

Re: Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Luk Claes
Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Just to bring that back to discussion: > > With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. > There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause > stability. (My servers which needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) s/lenny/etch/ > Is

Re: Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Klaus Ethgen writes: > Background: The glibc in lenny is compiled to be incompatible with > kernels lower than 2.6. I do not know if there are options to use newer > glibc with older kernels. There is other software in lenny that isn't built to be compatible with older kernels as well. For exam