New kernel, should be the default

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 16:47, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> This change is a HUGE step backward, contributes *NOTHING* to the
> general safety and reliability of Linux and indeed will reduce it as
> people start using older and older kernels because the new ones were
> never selected as the default.

I haven't followed this thread carefully,
but I belong to an apparent minority
consisting of those who never use distribution kernels,
and so much prefer any new kernel _not_ to be made the default.

I use yum, and it seems new kernels are downloaded by me,
probably because I said something long ago.

However, distribution kernels have not worked on my SCSI only machine
for ages (I think since Redhat-8.0).
This doesn't particularly worry me,
but it would be boring if I had to edit grub.conf frequently.

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