Re: tux on 2.4.27 kernel and referrer checking

Ah, rhel 3 uses a special 2.4 kernel with backported 2.6 features, and 
rhel 4 will ship 2.6 IIUC - OTOH the current suse enterprise server 
(sles 9) ships with kernel 2.6...

Joe

Dean Lim wrote:

>Ah ok. I'm using rhel.
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>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:54:14 -0700, joe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Dean Lim wrote:
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>>>I just checked out the mailing list at kernel.org and alot of people
>>>are complaining about the new 2.6.9 kernel and all its bugs regarding
>>>production use. I would really like to use the 2.6 kernel series so I
>>>am wondering why you say its stable for production use.
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>>Apples and oranges, you're talking about raw kernel.org tarballs, I'm
>>talking about the 2.6 kernel as supplied by enterprise Linux vendors. To
>>put it another way, as I mentioned in the post to which you are replying:
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>>>>AFAIK all kernel.org releases can now be considered "development grade",
>>>>of interest to developers, integrators and brave beta testers. For
>>>>production use, the normal practice is to run a linux distribution from
>>>>a vendor. The vendor kernels are carefully patched and subjected to
>>>>rigorous testing, so the vendors can certify and support their
>>>>enterprise distributions.
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>>IOW, as an end user, if you are looking for stability, use the 2.6
>>kernel that your vendor ships.
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>>Hope this helps,
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>>Joe
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