Re: tlug: Are kernels interchangable?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, David J Iannucci wrote:

> Question:
> 
> All other things being equal (and this may require some clarification,
> but interpret it as liberally as necessary), since Linux is Linux,
> basically, is a kernel compiled under one distribution (for a given
> CPU) usable under another distribution?

BASICALLY, yes.  However, it's not always desirable.  For example,
TurboLinux and Redhat are designed to have a fully modular kernel.  If you
drop a slackware kernel in there, some things, ie, some configuration
tools/init scripts may stop working if things are suddenly either compiled
into the kernel or nonexistant.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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