Re: Recommended kernel for RH 7.3

Hi Dan,

> I've heard some nasty things about the RH 8.0 kernel (2.4.18).  There 
> are some things at the low level that are missing and this causes some 
> device oriented code to not work.  This means it might be better to stay 
> with 7.3 for some software.  I don't think this is an issue with the LDM 
> since the networking support is still there but its something to keep in 
> mind.
> 
> For our NOAAPORT systems, we are unable to go to RH 8 because of these 
> omissions.

Was this a bug or were these things intentionally left out?

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