Features after users guide publication

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
Gentoo does provide the standard kernel source.
You'll want to read the Gentoo Kernel Guide, online.  I forget the exact 
package name at the moment.
Yours,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4 at msn.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Features after users guide publication


>I don't think you will have any problems running a custom kernel under
> gentoo, if you did the configuration of the kernel yourself, you
> shouldn't have any trouble there (that would be where I would expect
> most users having the trouble). You will need to read the docs for the
> portage system to find out how to tell portage you are doing the kernel
> yourself (although I suppose you can miss this out and just not compile
> and install the kernel sources provided by portage, and just continue
> with your own custom kernel (source from kernel.org and patched with
> speakup)).
>
> Also CVS isn't too much different to subversion (particularly if you are
> only using it as a user, rather than developer).
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 12:34 -0300, Cleverson wrote:
>> Michahel wrote:
>> "This will probably mean you will need to use the standard
>> kernel source rather than the gentoo kernel source (as I remember even 
>> their
>> vanilla kernel source which is meant to be it before any modifications
>> seemed to be slightly different preventing
>> speakup patching from CVS)."
>>
>> I was just wondering if I won't have any problems runing a standard 
>> kernel
>> under Gentoo. Is there any other way I could download the current version
>> and patch it manually? Maybe I'll have to learn how CVS works, as up to 
>> now
>> I know subversion only.
>>
>> Anyways, thanks for all of infos.
>>
>> Cleverson
>>
>> "Be realistic; ask for the impossible."
>>
>>
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