Re: tux on 2.4.27 kernel and referrer checking

[Dean Lim <in.incognito@gmail.com>]

I just talked to someone else and they say 2.6 is very stable although
it has bugs.

Hopefully tux doesn't have too many bugs either.


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:58:42 -0700, joe <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >
> >>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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