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The Great Package Management ExperimentThe Great Package Management ExperimentPosted Sep 25, 2003 19:59 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)In reply to: The Great Package Management Experiment by Algol Parent article: The Great Package Management Experiment Why upgrade the kernel? If the old one works, keep using it. If you need a new one, just do: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (or select it in dselect/aptitude/etc.). This is supposed to be a feature of GNU/Linux systems: upgrade without requiring a reboot! When you need the stuff in the new kernel, then you get a new kernel.
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The Great Package Management Experiment Posted Sep 26, 2003 18:49 UTC (Fri) by ranger (guest, #6415) [Link] Why upgrade the kernel? If the old one works, keep using it.But if this applies to Debian, it applies just as well to Mandrake. However, note that 3rd-party software (notably Win4lin) may want you to be running the default kernel, so I would expect a fair comparison to include a kernel update on both. So, it looks like (according to the other poster who reckoned that an apt-get update would be necessary) Mandrake and Debian come out even? Anyway, to the original author, please (especially with the Cooker HOWTO) refer to the more official documents available on the Mandrake Cooker Wiki
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