BenderBendingRodriguez wrote:
> Honestly, there are hundreds of HowTo’s.
>
> Simplest is unpack the kernel source to /usr/src/, go to this directory
> and if we want to adjust it graphically we invoke it with make xconfig
> (qt3-devel necessary).
>
> We can slim it down with checking what modules are loaded with lsmod
> and make them permanent in the kernel while getting rid of the rest like
> some filesystems we will never use etc.
>
> After that it is a matter of simple
>
> make -jX where X is amount of cores + 1
>
> make modules_install
>
> make install
>
> And voila
One small change. It is NOT recommended to build the kernel as root;
however, openSUSE installs the source as owned by root:root. To fix
this, login as a normal user and do the following:
cd /usr/src
sudo chown -R <username>:users *
The should be replaced by whatever login name you use.
Now that your normal user owns the source, you can change directory to
the source location and do the following:
make
sudo make modules_install install
The last step will add the new kernel to your /boot/grub/menu.lst and
you can select it from GRUB.
Open Source Watershed this could make this site worth some merit, it clearly seems to need tweaking in a couple of places.
But the author is very much into feedback and approachable. I also suspect would love patches over words. Here I lacked the skills(I reported that something is slightly a miss with the Suse Crawl script)
Though some things have to be taken into consideration i.e the comparison to newer releases. But if we presume that the future logarithm is correct not looking good. The bits in how its being worked out is there on the front page. The initial stats are just using a handful of core packages but the search can be interesting.
This is great news! lol! I’m well chuffed, its great to know openSUSE is still living on the cutting edge of linux developement.
How could I have doubted the dev guys…
Its getting to the point in openSUSE where you can ‘freshen’ up releases. Look at GNOME or KDE. You can update them to the latest version or even the current dev version without having to try out the openSUSE Factory. With other projects in OBS doing this it is getting easier to run newer version
openSUSE-11.2 Milestone5 is proving to be a big step back from milestone4.
I’m wondering how many of the new milestone5 problems are because of the introduction of the new 2.6.31 kernel ? If many, then maybe this (rushing the new kernel out the door) was not the best approach.
The risk here is by pushing for the latest kernel, we could turn openSUSE-11.2 from being a stable release, to one with major bugs that will only serve to irritate the community with the GM is finally released.
I know it’s not openSUSE specific but i’m reporting that this problem doesn’t exist anymore (at least for me and yes, i’m using the 2.6.31 kernel and again yes i had it though clicking OK once again with the same password did let me in YaST and other root privileges requiring applications)
I see no benefit in not moving to the newer kernel, while Novell may have less people to work on it it is still beneficial to have the newer kernel at least for greater hardware compatibility. Most problems are with userspace programs anyway?
and again yes i had it though clicking OK once again with the same password did let me in YaST and other root privileges requiring applications)