On Oct 11, 7:12 am, Bob Meyers <oregon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2:49 pm, Brian Keener
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> <bkeenerReMoVeAnTiS...@thesoftwaresource.com> wrote:
> > Bob Meyers wrote:
> > > linux-abi on a few more kernels and distros. So far I failed at CentOS
> > > 5 (RedHat ES5) and a couple of others. Maybe I'll get lucky and a few
> > > others are trying too.
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> > Bob,
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> > When you and I talked about this and I mentioned iBCS - I also see I
> > download a patch for Linux-abi-2.6.18 which would be a patch for the
> > linux-abi using kernel-2.6.18 which I think is what you told me you got
> > for in the CentOS 5 Kernel.
>
> > As I said the last thing I tried was CentOS4 with a 2.6.9-22.0.1 kernel
> > and a linux-abi to match. I haven't tried the iBCS nor am I totally
> > conversant on the difference or change that was involved when it went
> > from linux-abi to iBCS.
>
> > bk
>
> Thanks Brian and yes my CentOS 5 is 2.6.18. That may be the one I
> already tried. First problem I had was uname -r shows:
> 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5PAE, and it didn't have the same name in /usr/src/
> kernel.
>
> I'll keep at it and report any progress.
>
> My latest greatest Ubuntu 7.10 is 2.6.23 That should be a challenge.
>
> On vmware suggestion: Don't OS's on vmware run significantly slower
> than normal? I did a Windows Vista on a linux with vmware. It worked
> fine, very stable, but very slow too. Maybe it is because Vista is by
> nature all graphic CPU work.

Oops, I just now noticed the vmware question was answered already,
thanks. Sorry for the repeat.