kernel flavours & reiser4

ddaasspp · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 30

Hello,

I've been using Gentoo for about 2 months now (with gentoo-dev-sources) and I''m thinking about trying reiser4. I read some threads in the forum but I'm kind of lost with all these kernel flavours .. nitro, love, ck, mm. Which ones support reiser4 and which one do you recommend? I have a simple pentium4 machine without HT and a nvidia graphics card (if that makes a difference).

Also, is there a "homepage" for these kernels to explain the general ideas/purpose for each one?

Thanks a lot ..

Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

Well, maybe I can simplify a bit...

ck-sources are Con Kolivas's kernel patchset which contains only patches that improve performance. It's very good patchset for desktop usage. ck-sources are widely used as a base for another kernel patchsets, in example, for nitro-sources and cko-sources. Note, ck-sources doesn't have Reiser4 support!

nitro-sources includes some patches that ck-sources doesn't have (in example Reiser4). nitro-sources are pretty stable and fast, I would recommend them.

cko-sources (CK Overloaded) uses ck-sources as a base too, and contains various patches that original ck-sources doesn't have (just like nitro-sources, it contains Reiser4 patch)

mm-sources are the most experimental patchset. These patchsets are known to break things and I wouldn't recommend using mm-sources.

Here are some links for those patchsets:
ck-sources
cko-sources
nitro-sources

fallow · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

there is also xx http://sourceforge.net/projects/xx-sources , https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=169076&highlight=xxsources
love http://www.love-sources.org/news.php
and vivid

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=197069 or http://sourceforge.net/projects/vivid-sources
( partial mm based line vv_e and full mm based line vvmm_e )

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ddaasspp · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 30

Thank you, both!

OK, if nobody comes up with a new recommendation, I'll go with nitro. It seems to me it's a more popular choice than cko ..

alkan · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:58 pm Post subject:

until reiser4 suport on official kernel release, use nitro, working well for me for 2 months now.