Do you run PCLinuxOS 2007 or Minime 2008 and would you like to take advantage of the latest kernel for PCLinuxOS? You can do this by enabling the ‘testing’ portion of the repository.
Read about Repository Control in PCLinuxOS
You’ll be looking for the ‘sections’ blank when viewing repository details and you’ll just need to add ‘testing’ to the end of the line (don’t replace the entires there already). Once that is done, click the reload button in Synaptic and allow it to refresh your local rpm cache.
Click the ‘search’ button and search for the keyword ‘kernel’. Look for the highest number of kernel that is returned. At the time of this writing, the 2.6.26.8 kernel was the newest kernel for PCLinuxOS (it has .27 patches all over in it…so it’s quite a nice kernel). Click and install that kernel and allow it to select any packages it needs to install. Once installed, you can remove the word testing from the repository (this is recommended to prevent your system from downloading ALL testing packages/updates) and click the reload button for Synaptic.
Reboot and choose the new kernel on your grub menu. Test things to see how they work. If everything is good to go, congratulations! You’ve just installed the latest kernel in PCLinuxOS.
To make this kernel the default one, you can use the PCLinuxOS Control Center and Change the Way the System Boots. I’ll cover this in a later post. Hope this helps a few of you out there. I know it is often asked on IRC.
