Dear Friends,
I have installed latest 2.6.8.1 kernel on my Redhat 8. I installed xine
multimedia player also. It works fine with amazing performance. That too
I am working on terminal and other GUI applications simultaneously
without any performance issue. seeing this, i have some questions in
general.
1. What way the application I am installing is related to the kernel?
i.e Whether the applications depends tightly on kernel version? why I am
asking is this, many applications are labelled for distro, not for
kernel version. IN SHORT I WANT TO KNOW THE DEPENDENCY OF KERNEL
VERSION, DISTRO VERSION, DESKTOP (KDE, GNOME..) AND APPLICATION WITH
EACH OTHER?
2. Since I found that many latest applications run comfortably with
latest kernel, Can I keep my Redhat 8 distro undisturbed with only
kernel update of 2.6.8.1. If I do so what are all the pros and cons on it?
3. If I want to update my KDE, What I am suppose to do? I found so many
KDE related rpms and src.rpms on www.kde.org. How to go about it and
where to start with it?
Regards
T.KaruppuSwamy