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Originally posted by nbi1 View PostYes, Ubuntu is definitely better, but has issues of its own. If you need HW support that only a newer kernel gives you that can be problematic as Ubuntu has a specific kernel build process. Although it can be done, building a new kernel from a tarball is not routine. To make life easier one should grab the kernel source via an official Ubuntu .deb if it is available. For example, I needed 2.6.28 under Intrepid and ended up building it from the 2.6.28 Jaunty .deb. At first I tried building from a kernel.org tarball, but quickly learned the error of my ways. Doctor, it hurts when I do that....
tar xjf linux-xxxx.tar.bz2
make menuconfig, make && make modules && make install && make modules_install
update-initrd -c -k x.x.x
and finally update /boot/grub/menu.lst.
For this you need build-essential, ncurses-term and libncurses5-dev.
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