On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:07 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Craig White wrote: >> >>> This was a big update - presuming that you are talking about RHEL 4 U2. >>> Normally the updates are out very quickly. The U2 update includes things >>> such as spinning new iso's and there are a lot more issues such as i586 >>> support and other platforms as well. >>> >>> These guys do a terrific job. >>> >>> patience is a virtue >> >> Agreed. I'm excited (mostly cause I'm using Ubuntu on my laptop, but would >> love to switch it back to CentOS, depending on what kernel version it is >> and how well it supports the laptop, but I'm happy to wait. I'm happy to >> have such a rock-solid distribution. > ---- > The kernel is 2.6.9-22 > > I don't think RHEL is too keen on major kernel updates. Don't know how > much backporting has been done to get it to -22 Yeah, I know that about Red Hat. It's the backporting part I always wonder about since the details that don't work on my laptop are things like ACPI support, a couple drivers. Not much else, really. > I think if you're a patient sort (untested), you can get a changelog > with something like... > > rpm -qp --changelog > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4ES/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm Na. The laptop works now and the wife is happy. That's all that matters right now. Preston