kernel choices?

All,

I've been vacilating on what kernel to pick for a production server.  I've basically decided I have to update anything (even vanilla) as the raid card, scsi card and network cards I'll be using have newer drivers released (not to mention the qlogic fibre channel cards), but where to start?  I thought I'd start with gs-sources, but it looks like its using a prerelease kernel.

Others suggested I use gentoo-sources, but its optimization goals don't seem well suited to a headless server environment, but more to a multipurpose system.  The hardended sources also seemed like a good pick, but they're all masked, so I don't want to get too near them with a production server.

Is my best bet just to start with vanilla and add from there, or is there a better route?  What do you folks do?  In the event you do provide a suggestion, please give me a feel for the use of the system, what the SLAs are, etc.  Ie: the system being built is a two way xeon with raid'd boot drives, failover qlogic fibre cards to a redundant fcal array, and there's a cold spare in the next rack, so the goal is decent enough uptime, but we're not talking four/five nines or anything like that.

thanks in advance!

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adam


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