Upgrading Your Current System To Kernel 2.6

An anonymous reader writes "This white paper provides an overview of the process of moving an existing desktop system to the 2.6 kernel. It will highlight other software requirements imposed by the new kernel and administrative changes that you must make when migrating an existing system to the 2.6 kernel. It supplements previous whitepapers in the same series about Customizing the 2.6 kernel [Slashdot discussion here(1)] and porting drivers to the 2.6 kernel [Slashdot discussion here(2)] to the 2.6 kernel."

I can't find it anywhere....

[MeanE]

on Windows update?!? Where the heck is it?

This settles it.

[revolvement]

BSD^H^H^H2.4 kernel is dying.

Re:I can't find it anywhere....

[DarkHelmet]

Check the ports directory, dumbass. ;)

Re:I wish I had this two months ago

[scrytch]

Stories like this do nothing to help build a convincing argument to Windows users that Linux is in fact the better OS. If even seasoned Linux users have problems upgrading their kernel, think of how frustrating it would be for someone less technically-inclined.

Tell me about it, the other day I just slapped the Win2k kernel into my win98 box and it just sailed right through, no problems at all...

Re:I can't find it anywhere....

[xargoon]

It's not on windows update.

http://www.microsoft.com/win2k-kernel-2.6.zip

You probably need GCC to compile it:P

Give It Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Circa 1985...

Stories like this do nothing to help build a convincing argument to Stove users that Microwaves are in fact the better oven. If even seasoned Microwave users have problems popping popcorn, think of how frustrating it would be for someone less technically-inclined.

This is one of many issues that Microwave users have to work out before it can become a true mainstream oven.

Circa 2000...

Does anybody still use a stove to pop popcorn? Just asking.

Re:What system?

[pavon]

What is slashdot? Although it is obvious to you, I think it would be worth pointing out in your post that it is a website covering "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."

Or we could just use the grade school skill of reading in context.

Re:What about grub?

[Abcd1234]

Well, it works just fine for me...

ObOldSaw

[sharkey]

It's not exactly the most user-friendly system around.

Sure it is. It's just picky about who its friends are.

Re:What I'd like to see...

[Anonymous Coward]

On Gentoo anything that only takes a couple of hours *is* a breeze.

My current system is...

[realkiwi]

running 2.6 you insensitive clod

Re:sound

[iabervon]

My experience is that sound never works the first time you try to set it up, but the second time you try, you find that it already works. 2.6 has been, for me, the exception; it worked the first time. Of course, I'm still using the OSS emulation in ALSA, not the ALSA API at all. But it seems to me to be better than the real OSS; it will play two sounds at the same time (the second through the second PCM) even if programs are only trying to use the first device. I'm even setting the volume levels with a program configured for OSS (which seems to me to actually work better than the ALSA programs).

But on Slashdot

[bonch]

The purpose of Linus et al is not to beat Microsoft. That's statedly incidental. The ultimate purpose is to make a free (as in both) OS which 'just works'.

Here on Slashdot, the purpose is to beat Microsoft.

Re:Yow.

[jo42]

Not to mention that "White Paper", "White Hats", "Black Hats" and "Red Hat" is all very racist these days...

Re:OT: Debian

[Rolo Tomasi]

It couldn't be easier. Just make sure you use dselect when prompted. It's Debian's phenomenal menu-oriented package selection tool.

Re:I wish I had this two months ago

[Tukla]

And show me a Windows Upgrade Edition that actually upgrades your system without hosing it.