Re: 6G memory

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

> On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned:
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> > Thanks M.
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> Ooh!  I like that.  Can I be "M" from the James Bond movies?  Except,
> you know, younger.
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You can be any M you like:-) 'cept, probably M & M.


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> > Off hand, I can't think of any impediment to running a RH kernel on
> > Debian, unless the NPTL causes problems, and the quickest way to find
> > that out is to try it.
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> I don't use stock kernels or initrd, but is it possible redhat and
> debian might handle initrd differently somehow?  That's the only thing I
> could think of, and I'd imagine there would be documentation to figure
> it out, anyway.
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Well, they both put the kernels in /boot (but named a little 
differently), and both put modules in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)

You could conceivably get some dependency problems, but those could 
_easily) be handled by installing the appropriate Debian package and not 
using it:-)

Think lmsensors. The modules in RHL are in the kernel package.

If you have some flash new hardware, building a kernel from RH or 
Mandrake or SuSE is more likely to provide support for it than Debian 
is. I know RH and Mandrake both had USB in 2.2 when it wasn't in 
kernel.org source.

Red Hat puts a lot of work into gcc, glibc, the kernel and gnome (and 
probably lots of other stuff).

It's a shame DDs don't actually use RHL some of the time. It's called 
"surveying the opposition."


Of course, on RH lists I used to tell 'em what they did wrong!

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Cheers
John

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