tux on 2.4.27 kernel and referrer checking

joe joe at tmsusa.com
Wed Oct 27 21:54:14 UTC 2004


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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