One of my main reasons for using RedHat was their approach to QA, especially on the kernel side. I applaud them for sticking with a working kernel rather than going through the vm-of-the-week cycle that Linus is putting the Linux community through.
Jon On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Dave Reed wrote: > > From: Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > For Pete's sake, why 2.4.9? Please don't tell me Redhat is trying to > > avoid the new VM? I'm more than a little tired of the old VM swapping > > me into a oblivion. I've put off buying a new harddisk to get more > > swapspace, because I figured the new VM would be in a kernel patch next > > time there was a (kernel) security problem. Alas, it doesn't appear to > > have worked out that way. > > > > -- > > Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS > > Red Hat's policy is to only make bug fixes to a current > release. Although I wish they would also update to newer packages, I > understand that from a QA point of view. > > If you want, you can get a newer kernel from rawhide. I updated to it > and the modutils from rawhide on Monday and my 7.2 system has been > running fine since. > > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
