Re: tux on 2.4.27 kernel and referrer checking

[joe <joe@tmsusa.com>]

Ah, rhel 3 uses a special 2.4 kernel with backported 2.6 features, and 
rhel 4 will ship 2.6 IIUC - OTOH the current suse enterprise server 
(sles 9) ships with kernel 2.6...

Joe

Dean Lim wrote:

> Ah ok. I'm using rhel.
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:54:14 -0700, joe <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
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> > Dean Lim wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I just checked out the mailing list at kernel.org and alot of people
> > > are complaining about the new 2.6.9 kernel and all its bugs regarding
> > > production use. I would really like to use the 2.6 kernel series so I
> > > am wondering why you say its stable for production use.
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Apples and oranges, you're talking about raw kernel.org tarballs, I'm
> > talking about the 2.6 kernel as supplied by enterprise Linux vendors. To
> > put it another way, as I mentioned in the post to which you are replying:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > AFAIK all kernel.org releases can now be considered "development grade",
> > > > of interest to developers, integrators and brave beta testers. For
> > > > production use, the normal practice is to run a linux distribution from
> > > > a vendor. The vendor kernels are carefully patched and subjected to
> > > > rigorous testing, so the vendors can certify and support their
> > > > enterprise distributions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> > IOW, as an end user, if you are looking for stability, use the 2.6
> > kernel that your vendor ships.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe
> >
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