On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:58:08PM +0300, Ariel Biener wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > shape or form. Why don't you use the vendor's kernels? For production > > use, that's definitely the safest bet. > > That is completely untrue, and also missleading to the whole community > reading this thread. It is a sad fact that for example, RedHat kernels > have a zillion of badly tested or even not that patches, which Linus and > the Linux kernel development team would never insert in the kernel just > like that.
Sorry, you're dead wrong. Redhat is a distribution. Redhat has a certain commitment to the people who *pay* them, to ensure a certain standard of quality. That means that Redhat TEST their kernels and do QUALITY ASSURANCE on them. Can you say the same things about Linus kernels? (you can't). Can you say the same thing about Marcelo's kernels (maybe, probbly, we don't know). Can you say the same thing about AC's kernels? (not lately). You asked about a production server. Seems to me you don't know what production server means. > Not only that they are not *stable*, they are less stable than any pre > kernel. ??? Please back this assertion up with version numbers and bugs discovered. Otherwise, you're just spouting at the mouth. > So, on contrare, some of the 2.4.x-pre?-ac? kernels I've installed are the > most stable kernels Linux ever had, mainly since the -ac codebase patches > include the FreeBSD like VM. Actually, TAU mail services are running on > two machines using 2.4.18-pre3-ac2, being very very stable for quite a > long time. To quote Alan Cox, at Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:10:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux 2.4.20-pre1-ac2 [snipped] This is a large scale merge of the pending queue. It has not been extensively tested and is mostly for review/comment and to help people to get patches in sync. It might well work too 8) > And I have asked this question *BECAUSE* I have a problem with an > appliance using RedHat 7.2, and with the Linux kernel supplied by > RedCrack. That's what I asked in the first place, if you had a problem with distro kernels or were just wondering, and my answer was qualified accordingly. NOTE: None of my machines run redhat kernels, they all run various 2.4 (-pre and -ac) and 2.5 kernels. I test Linus and Marcelo's latest kernels AND send patches to problems I discover. I'm sure there are many others like me who do the same thing. This does NOT constitute adequate QA and certainly has nothing to do with which kernel to run on a PRODUCTION server! -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?
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