[Techtalk] kernel upgrade question

[Karine Proot]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 15:08, Teri Solow wrote:
> Noir imparted (2004-09-17 @ 13:54:26 +0100):
> > At http://kernel.org it says: "The latest stable
> > version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.8.1." But I can
> > see it's a patch. 
> > 
> > If I go to
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
> > I can find 2.6, 2.6.1 etc. etc.
> > 
> > My question is: which one should I d.load to upgrade
> > my kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.6.theLatest.
> [...]
> If you download a kernel from your distribution (e.g. from gentoo the
> latest is sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.9_rc2) you should be
> alright.

If you want your kernel from kernel.org anyway, the 'full' download is
not the first link on the line (which is indeed a patch), but the link '
F ' on that same line.

Karine