My CISCO Journal

Monolithic and modular kernal update

source rpm and binary rpm ( for our basic needs binary rpms are great, source rpms are good if we want to tinker with the system changes)

smp : symetric multiprocessor

Kernal update and installation
we need to go to the redhad website, to download the kernel, once the kernel is downloaded

cat /proc/cpuinfo


md5sum : to check the files wether they are being tamprered with or not.
md5 checksum is really helpful in tracing out if the file is safe to us or not, and its very good to use , in order to avoid using any harmful software.


cd /boot

cat /etc/grub.conf : to check the kernel loading parameters in the grub loader

uname -r : to check the kernel version