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From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>
To: Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Other problems compiling kernel
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This is not Linux. The kernel and the userland are not independent of each
other. If you want to run a 4.0-STABLE kernel, you *must* run a 4.0-STABLE
userland. This isn't something new to 4.0, 3.X worked the same way.

Eric

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 03:26:38PM -0700, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> That's fine if I want to follow the stable branch and update the whole
> system. All I want to do is update my kernel to something more
> appropriate
> for my needs. I have 4.0-RELEASE right now. I know it's highly
> recommended
> to follow the stable branch but at this point that's not what I want to
> do.
> Has the ability to simply recompile the kernel been obscured so much in
> this release?


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