-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 22:55 18/12/2002 +1100, you wrote: | What I mean is, if I went to say www.kernel.org and downloaded to latest | development kernel, or even just a later one that red hat is not using | yet, say 2.4.20, would it affect my system. | In other words, when I say standard release, one that red hat has not | released through their update feature, nor supported.
Should work fine. There will be features missing from the Linus tree that you'll find in the Red Hat tree, and visa versa. One specific thing to watch out for is quota support. Last I checked, the Linus kernels are still using Quota v1 whereas the Red Hat kernels are using quota v2. So if you update your kernel and are using quotas, be prepared to migrate them to the supported format or find a way to patch v2 support into your Linus kernel (unless it's been added to 2.4.20 - last kernel I compiled myself was 2.4.19). Alan Cox kernels (ac branch), however, use quota v2. I used to be a kernel compile junkie, however recently, I've taken for granted that the Red Hat kernels are "good enough", and I appreciate the ~ fact that they've already patched the holes in theirs. When managing 15-20 machines, recompiling the kernel for each one, grabbing the correct modules for the existing hardware can be quite time consuming, and I'm not sure the benefits in performance would outweigh the time it takes to customize. Bottom line - unless you feel that 2.4.20 and/or compiling it yourself will provide benefits that Red Hat's Patched 2.4.18 series doesn't provide, and unless it's worth missing out on Red Hat's additions, I'd stick to Red Hat's kernels. An alternative to get most of the gains: feel free to recompile theirs for your specific architecture/hardware. Unless you're athlon based, there's probably a small gain between i686 generic and PIII/PIV - not to mention the potential gain of using a static kernel specific for your hardware vs. using modules. My 2 cents, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+AJwvIgQdhlSHZgMRAiwGAJ44T2MrlVRj3lFA5i1Vr48+ecvDvQCg+ZYB SWRJSv+pU7dM3TRIx/34sTk= =dWVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
