RE: RH8.0 - Kernel 2.4.18?

["Rechenberg, Andrew" <arechenberg shermfin com>]

When I went to trainging at Red Hat I asked the very same question and
according to their trainers Red Hat does exstensive QA on kernels (and
all other packages for that matter) to make sure that the kernel they
provide is the most stable.  For Red Hat, 2.4.18 is actually a VERY
recent kernel, since 2.4.19 is the current (as of today, 9-30-2002)
kernel.org stable release.

Also, Red Hat adds many patches to their kernels (I believe their kernel
is closest to the -ac line of kernels) to add functionality and improve
stability.  When they 'stamp' a distribution version, they decide
beforehand 'OK, this is Red Hat 8.0 and we're going to use 2.4.18 as the
kernel' and then they work from there.

So to be a little 'behind the curve' is OK with me, as long as I have a
stable kernel that I know is going to work well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Lee Young [mailto:youtim73 netaxs com] 
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:53 PM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: RH8.0 - Kernel 2.4.18?


So Red Hat 8.0 is still using Kernel 2.4.18?????  Why not 2.4.19?





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