<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Mike Scarborough <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mscarborough@associatedcontent.com">mscarborough@associatedcontent.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
IMO, Ubuntu can be a pain with sending kernel updates a lot so it can<br>
sometimes be a moving target. Are you still running the 8.04-provided<br>
kernel on an otherwise 8.10 system?<br></blockquote></div><br>Once the headers are installed, they generally stay in sync with the kernel, so this is not a problem except on initial install.<br><br>Also, recent versions of both Ubuntu and Fedora have a great new feature called dkms that should keep those custom kernel modules, such as those required by VMWare and VBox, in sync by automatically recompiling when the kernel upgrades.<br>
<br>Therefore, when you have a Fedora or Ubuntu system properly configured, your criticism is outdated. Though it still is that way with many distros (SUSE, Cent, etc), and used to be that way with Ubuntu and Fedora, that problem has been fixed in these two distros.<br>
<br>Kevin Fries<br>