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SearchOpenSource: Testing a New Linux Kernel While Keeping the Old One

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2006

[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
]

“I was running SUSE Linux 9.0 on an IBM ThinkPad. This
configuration did everything I needed: word processing, Web access,
email, C and assembly programming. But my version of the Linux
kernel was out of date and I wanted to upgrade it. I wanted to do
this in a way that did not remove my current kernel, in case I
needed to revert to it.

“This article describes how I accomplished this task by using a
dual-boot system with two Linux kernels to choose from during
startup. You can use this same approach to upgrade to a new, stable
version of the kernel or to test a potentially unstable kernel
before committing to it…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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