Re: linux 2.4.20-pre?-ac? kernels

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Ariel Biener wrote about "Re: linux 2.4.20-pre?-ac? 
kernels":
> That is completely untrue, and also missleading to the whole community
> reading this thread. It is a sad fact that for example, RedHat kernels
> have a zillion of badly tested or even not that patches, which Linus and
> the Linux kernel development team would never insert in the kernel just
> like that.
> 
> Not only that they are not *stable*, they are less stable than any pre
> kernel.

People, please, when you trash Red-Hat in this list, please at least specify
what kind of experience you have with them. People have been saying things
here that are in *COMPLETE* contradiction to my 5-year experience with
various versions of Redhat. I suspect that some of the people trashing Red-
Hat are not actually using it, and are just assuming things.

In the last couple of years I've been using Redhat 7.* extensively both at
home and at work. I've never encountered any problems with gcc 2.96 (certainly
not with the Redhat 7.1 and later versions), but its greatly improved C++
support and other improvements over 2.95 were important to me. In all this
time, I only encountered one "buggy" Redhat kernel, and that bug wasn't
all that serious (reiserfs filesystems could not be umounted). In fact, I
found Redhat's kernels to be very stable.

> And I have asked this question *BECAUSE* I have a problem with an
> appliance using RedHat 7.2, and with the Linux kernel supplied by
> RedCrack.

I guess you really love Red-Hat :)

Please don't learn manners from Linus :( Referring to people you don't
agree with as drug addicts is not a very nice thing...

Anyway, are you using the *latest* update kernel for Redhat 7.2?

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