Slackware: kernel confusion

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    I'm not aware of NPTL or anything like that.  So I'm going to assume I 
don't need the headers package, nor the modules for that matter since I'll 
be custom compiling anyway.
Is this accurate?
Thanks,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug at proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Slackware: kernel confusion


> Zach,
>
> Slackware 11 does have 2.6.17 kernel, the source, headers, module
> and kernel are available here:
>
> http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/slackware/slackware-11.0/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/
>
> Please note the warning about headers
> http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/slackware/slackware-11.0/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-headers.WARNING
>
> This kernel is not a speakup kernel, but it's easy to patch it for
> speakup. If you want the 2.6.x kernel headers, then grab them
> from the above, you could get the source for 2.6.21 instead
> from kernel.org and patch that for speakup. Follow the
> speakup install instructions, they are not difficult.
>
>  -- Doug
>
>
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