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* Cliff Brake <cliff.brake@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, > Practically, you may run into problems with current user space > utilities (like udev) requiring a recent kernel. When I have > to work on a full featured system running the 2.4 kernel, it > is generally a lot of pain. But, with simple systems you may > be fine. on 2.6 I didn't have any major problems yet. For example I'm building complete images for VPS'es with crosstool's toolchains. > My strategy is always to use the latest of everything if possible. ACK. Mine too. When I'm doing some fixes, they're put to the OSS-QM repository and sent to the upstream. Sometimes they make it into the next release, sometimes it takes years ;-o > If you run into problems, chances are there are people interested > in helping you fix them. Well, at least for most packages. But there also are some projects, which force you to use very old and outdated stuff like pre-2.51 autoconf. Mozilla is one of the examples - they still don't see why it's worth having a look at my autoconf-porting patches, also my other patches for allowing to disable unused/unwanted stuff, kicking off third-party libs, etc. Strange people ;-o cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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