On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 at 23:41 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > I think you will see less of this as time goes by. I hear a lot of talk > about how they are not trying to deliver a finished product like you > would expect someone like Red Hat to deliver. They realize that the > majority of kernels in the wild were packaged by a distro and they don't > seem to want to duplicate that effort when they could be working on the > next big thing. I'm not saying you can't run a vanilla kernel, I'm just > saying that they are not trying to productize it.
They have been saying that forever. > Now, kernel stability should be up to your distro. If you can't get a > stable kernel from them... then it's time to jump ship. In three years > with Red Hat (and now CentOS) kernels I've only seen one (1) kernel > panic and it was my fault for messing with the modules for digium > hardware (zaptel). I don't know how others have done with them. YMMV. I have never, never, met a distro kernel that I like. Thankfully most of them do work, but I have had battle with stock kernels from the following: redhat, rhel, suse, sles, mandrake, and yes debian. Distro kernels have to be everything for everyone, and they fail miserably. I am not a kernel hacker or distro kernel packager, but in my opinion all this backporting is a Bad IdeaTM, and part of the stability concern. Not to mention a real pain if you need to replace a buggy kernel on say RHEL, where some programs depend on 2.6 features that have been backported into the RHEL 2.4 kernel, and on the flip side it is a nightmare to upgrade the box to 2.6 (e.g. because of NPTL). Just my in-the-wild $0.02. -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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