tux on 2.4.27 kernel and referrer checking

Dean Lim in.incognito at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 21:55:28 UTC 2004


Ah ok. I'm using rhel.


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:54:14 -0700, joe <joe at tmsusa.com> wrote:
> Dean Lim wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
> >
> 
> 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:
> 
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> IOW, as an end user, if you are looking for stability, use the 2.6
> kernel that your vendor ships.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 
> 
> Joe
> 
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