aaron fox

I'm currently using 2.4.22, as installed from the Slackware 9.1 disks. I
know I'm behind the times, and so am ready to roll a 2.4.25 kernel from
scratch (avoiding 2.6 for now).

My question is, what additional patches to the kernel do you folks think
might be useful? The low-latency patch? Stuff from Openwall? I don't have
a real good feel for what patches Pat applied to the shipped versions of
the kernel, if any.

As a user, I run a Dell Inspiron 5100 a desktop environment in XFCE, with
occasional heavy MATLAB or SeismicUnix processing runs. Nothing terribly
strenuous.

Are there any good kernel patches you would all suggest I apply before I
get started?

Thanks!

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steve youngs

* Aaron Fox <afox@drizzle.com> writes:


IMO, unless you have very good reasons (you have really obscure
hardware, you wanna hack these "unofficial" things, etc), you should
stick to the mainline kernel.

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david

I have used the openwall patch for a long time now on several
different kernel releases and have had no problems with it.

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