When I went to trainging at Red Hat I asked the very same question and according to their trainers Red Hat does exstensive QA on kernels (and all other packages for that matter) to make sure that the kernel they provide is the most stable. For Red Hat, 2.4.18 is actually a VERY recent kernel, since 2.4.19 is the current (as of today, 9-30-2002) kernel.org stable release.
Also, Red Hat adds many patches to their kernels (I believe their kernel is closest to the -ac line of kernels) to add functionality and improve stability. When they 'stamp' a distribution version, they decide beforehand 'OK, this is Red Hat 8.0 and we're going to use 2.4.18 as the kernel' and then they work from there. So to be a little 'behind the curve' is OK with me, as long as I have a stable kernel that I know is going to work well. -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Lee Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RH8.0 - Kernel 2.4.18? So Red Hat 8.0 is still using Kernel 2.4.18????? Why not 2.4.19? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
