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Re: Updating Slackware

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject Re: Updating Slackware
Date 2026-09-13 14:56 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> wrote:
> On 2026-09-12, Jim Diamond wrote:
> 
>> Compiling a kernel is (in my experience) a fairly easy thing (if
>> not somewhat tedious).  ...
> 
> It got to a point, quite some time ago, at least in my own 
> experience, where it became very time-consuming to go through all of 
> the new configuration options on any kernel release, to learn what 
> they do and decide whether you need or want it in your custom kernel 
> for a particular system.  At which point, of course, you start just 
> using the default configuration with "make defconfig" or "make 
> alldefconfig".  Once you're there, why not just use the pre-packaged 
> kernel?

If one wants a newer kernel than what is prepackaged for some reason 
[1], compiling it is the faster method of obtaining it vs. waiting for 
the pre-packaged one to eventually reach that newer version milestone.

[1] Most often for one of the reasons of 1) a driver for a device that 
does not exist yet in the prepackaged version, or 2) a driver for a 
feature (filesystem or kernel) that does not exist yet in the 
prepackaged version.

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  Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-08 13:40 -0500
    Re: Updating Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 12:04 -0700
      Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-08 19:21 -0500
        Re: Updating Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 19:07 -0700
          Re: Updating Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-09-09 02:58 +0000
            Re: Updating Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-09-09 22:51 -0700
              Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-10 07:15 -0500
      Re: Updating Slackware Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-09-09 08:28 +0200
      Re: Updating Slackware Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2026-09-09 09:03 +0000
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    Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-12 10:16 -0300
      Re: Updating Slackware Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-09-12 15:53 +0200
        Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-12 14:42 -0300
          Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-13 14:11 +0000
            Re: Updating Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-09-13 14:56 +0000
              Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-14 22:40 +0000
            Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-13 12:29 -0300
              Re: Updating Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-09-14 15:20 +0000
              Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-14 22:52 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-14 18:42 -0500
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-15 00:51 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-14 21:15 -0500
              Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-14 23:30 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-09-14 21:57 -0400
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-16 16:48 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-27 21:20 -0300
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-28 16:46 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-10-02 15:25 -0300
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-10-02 20:35 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-10-03 11:20 -0400
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-10-03 19:27 +0000
      Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-12 10:31 -0500
        Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-12 14:38 -0300
          Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-12 19:05 -0500
  Re: Updating Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-09-09 09:29 +0000
    Re: Updating Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-09-09 09:42 +0000
      Re: Updating Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-09-09 10:31 +0000

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