I did not hear any person i spoke to that had problems with 2.6 so that he/she stayed with 2.4 except one using some proprietary modules. I too run gentoo on servers and I won't move to 2.6 in the near future, but I indeed think it should go to vanilla.
And there are many testers i think.
There are... for me I switched as soon as possible, but I believe the default option should still be 2.4.
2.6's big time will come soon enough! Patience my young padawan kernel :-)
It died horribly on my Sony Vaio, and it died horribly on nForce3 box. 2 out of my 3 x86 boxes required tweaking to get it to work. I wouldn't force that on users if you paid me.
I've installed a gentoo-dev-2.6 kernel sucessfully on a Sony Vaio without any problems (except for the i8x0 console framebuffer but that's also a problem with the 2.4 series of kernels). I'm using the new 2.6-dev ebuild on two other computers (one is another laptop) too without any troubles.
I believe though it's a good idea to keep 2.6 in dev state for another couple of months. It's just like jumping from 2.2 to 2.4 peaople "didn't entirey trust" the new 2.4 series and major distributors still kept the option to use 2.2 or 2.4. Putting the 2.6 to vanilla-sources would mean everybody intending to use a vanilla kernel would end up using the 2.6 by default. An option that would make sense though would be a 2.6 vanilla ebuild for dev sources too. Or what about masking 2.6 vanilla?
Bumping an ebuild from 2.4, to 2.6 with the same name will cause some confusion as stated previously it requires addition ebuilds to make some things work, that just worked in 2.4
my words...
Reinhard
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