On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* NVidia > drivers.... I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found > the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add > the HWADDR) You use the RPMfusion kmod's, and use the yum plugin to protect them, right? > Lazy! If I fired up my currently-not-running firewall/router at home, it's > got RH9. I'll let the following speak for itself. Read it carefully. It's from a running machine. # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo) # uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586 unknown # date Fri Jan 21 13:15:04 EST 2011 # What's that about 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' at least with boxes that don't have a direct Internet connection......and this box is doing its job, and doing it well, and with the features that meet the need. Yes, it's had a hard drive replacement, a motherboard/CPU replacement, among other things.... but even back in those days cloning drives was somewhat common..... [snip] > mark "that was FC14 that broke X yesterday" Filed a bug report, right? :-)