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Topic: 2.4.8 kernel smaller than 2.4.21?, Anyone know what is up with this?

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Agarax

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Posted: Sep. 10 2005,17:29

I was thinking about remastering DSL with the latest of the 2.4 tree of the Kernel to get some more hardware support, but first I went to kernel.org to see how much space this was going to cost me.

But there was something interesting.

The packages for the later 2.4 versions are apparently smaller than the 2.4.2 that I currently have in DSL.

File: linux-2.4.21.tar.gz 34644 KB
File: linux-2.4.8.tar.gz 26761 KB

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

I downloaded the files and untared them to make sure it just wasnt a better compression.

Anyone know the reason for this?

mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 10 2005,21:45

2.4.21 is newer than 2.4.8....it's 13 newer. Those decimal places are not actually decimal...they're simply numbers separated by dots. First set of digits is the major release, second set is minor release (even numbers, in kernel development, are considered stable), third is patches.

so what you have in DSL is not 2.4.2... it's 2.4.twenty-something

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Posted: Sep. 10 2005,22:15

2.4.26 to be exact

2.4.31 is latest,iirc

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