who wrote:

> Hi All
>
> In another thread, the drift went towards configuring a new kernel on my
> machine.
>
> To my knowledge, the supplied 'bare.i' kernel, is 2.4.20. The current
> stable release at kernel.org seems to be 2.4.22. Should I bother
> downloading/ configuring this for such a small point increase? (The
> changelog doesn't really make sense to me). Are there known bugs/issues
> in/with the 'bare.i' kernel I am using? Will there be any performance
> gain, however slight?
>
> I'm not asking you to make my mind up, just for your valued opinion.
> Tailoring my system in this way is a direction I'd certainly like to go.
>
> I do have another question. If I type swaret --search kernel, it pruces 4
> results, thus,
> kernel-headers-2.4.21-i386-1 (1119 kB)
> kernel-ide-2.4.21-i486-1 (1312 kB)
> kernel-modules-2.4.21-i486-1.1 (8889 kB)
> kernel-source-2.4.21-noarch-1 (35011 kB)
> If I type swaret --install kernel (ie these 4 packages) will this
> automagically install the kernel negating the need for doing it manually?
> I'm not trying to be lazy, I'm just asking.
>
> Thanks for any replies
> Darren

This is a question only you can answer. Is it worth it to you?
(time/learning). For me, using slack 9 kernel 2.4.20 versus most current
2.4.22, i personally don't think it's worth it yet. But this is a question
only you can answer for yourself.

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