What is the recommended LinuxEmulator and kernel that will run skype-devel and maybe Flash9

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Tijl Coosemans <tijl at ulyssis.org> (from Sun, 16 Mar 2008  
15:50:56 +0100):

> On Sunday 16 March 2008 14:06:18 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> (Sun, 16 Mar 2008   
>> 11:23:36 +0100):
>>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:50:23AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>>>> 2.4.20 expects the NPTL in the kernel, but our kernel only activates
>>>
>>> I seriously doubt that... NPTL is 2.6 stuff
>>
>> Wasn't 2.4.20 the backport of the NPTL stuff from RedHat? Or do I mix
>> this with futexes or something else?
>
> Both NPTL and futexes I think. I found a short overview at
> http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/85039.html

Nice and interesting list there... in case someone stumbles about a  
list of syscalls which changed from one linux kernel version to  
another, I would be interested.

> It isn't really necessary to support this imho.

That's basically what is behind my "either use 2.4.2 or 2.6.16".

Bye,
Alexander.

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