So then, replacing 2.6.34 with 3.0.4 should work just fine?
How about for CentOS 6 which is traditionally behind for stability
reasons? Is 3.0.4 more stable than 2.6.34?
>
> > The Linux 3.0.4 kernel is the current kernel. What is changing from
> > the long running 2.6 series which has gotten up around 2.6.40 or so?
>
> The 3.0.x series is just an incremental upgrade from 2.6.x. Linus
> wrote:
>
> ---- START QUOTE ----
> So what are the big changes?
>
> NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver
> changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is
> *just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a
> Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at
> all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years
> now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the
> renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ("20 years")
> instead.
>
> So no ABI changes, no API changes, no magical new features - just
> steady plodding progress.
> ---- END QUOTE ----
>
> See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147415.
>
> > CentOS 6 unfortunately is down at the 2.6.34 kernel level. I'm
> > curious if there are stability and/or other end of life issues for
> > the 2.6 kernel?
>
> Red Hat regularly backports security updates and other key
> enhancements from the current kernel into its production kernel. I
> imagine that process won't change at all with the renumbering.
>
> > Is it true that you have to have a gigabyte or more of ram now to
> > install CentOS 6? Huh, my old servers don't have that.
>
> You need to have that much for the graphical installer to run. You can
> still run the text installer with less than 1 GB, but you won't get
> access to as many install-time options.
>
> If you have a serious need to run CentOS 6 on a machine with less that
> a gigabyte of RAM, I suggest you learn how to configure and use
> the Red Hat/CentOS kickstart installation tools; that's the only route
> to a fully configurable installation on low-memory machines.
>
> PS: Ignoring you isn't censorship. Claiming it is completely and
> utterly devalues the experience of people who have actually been the
> victim of censors: those who have lost their livelihood, been cast
> into prison, or dragged to interminable legal proceedings. Your right
> to free speech does not now and never will mean that anyone has to
> listen to you.
>
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