On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

I think it's more a matter of taste/comfort.  I hate running a kernel
that's more than 6 months old, since I'm often aware of problems fixed
during that time, etc.  if your distro has only a 2.4 kernel, for instance,
IMO, you are losing quite a lot.  if your distro has a 2.6.9 kernel,
you're still missing, for instance, sata smart support.

Note that with some distros, the base kernel version has less meaning than you think as it's so heavily patched. RHEL4 has, yes, a kernel labeled 2.6.9. But, to counter your example, it also (as of U2 (or was it U3?)) supports SATA SMART.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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