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From - Tue Sep 5 16:40:39 2000 Path: news.randori.com!nerim.net!proxad.net!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!w037.z208176111.det-mi.dsl.cnc.NET!not-for-mail From: mhgraham@umich.edu (Dances With Crows) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: About Linux 2.4.0 Date: 29 Aug 2000 19:32:25 GMT Organization: Fleabag Discordian Society Lines: 28 Message-ID: <slrn8qo7gg.gls.mhgraham@fleabag.nullhouse.org> References: <8oh01o$jo1$1@front2.grolier.fr> Reply-To: mhgraham@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: w037.z208176111.det-mi.dsl.cnc.net (208.176.111.37) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 967577545 11452388 208.176.111.37 (16 [41327]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: news.randori.com comp.os.linux.misc:226002 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:37:57 +0100, Benoit Smith wrote: >I am about to install the latest Linux kernel, but I'm not sure that >the apps that I install later (most built for 2.2.x) will be compatible >with the new 2.4.x series. Please could someone enlighten me about that ? Most applications will work just fine when you upgrade the kernel from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. The only exceptions are applications that directly manipulate kernel data structures or directly access the hardware, like the Thinkpad Control utilities (tpctl and ntpctl). Those applications will ahve to be recompiled against the 2.4.x kernel headers, which is slightly annoying, but really no big deal. Things like Netscape, xterm, X-servers, all the KDE and GNOME things I've tried, and even Oracle won't even notice the difference between 2.2 and 2.4.
There's a problem with cdrecord and 2.4.x, which can be easily fixed by adding the following line to /etc/fstab: none /var/shm shm exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0 (You must "mkdir /var/shm" if that mount point doesn't exist already.) I haven't seen any other incompatibilities. -- Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -----------------------------/ --Henry Spencer

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