On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ian Chapman <packages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Roger Heflin wrote: > > > > The problem is that the enterprise OS's ship buggy kernels too, I have > > Of course they do, I'd be surprised to hear if anyone has shipped a 100% > bug free kernel, whether it be Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows or whatever. > The point though is that RHEL is less of a moving target, if you current > setup works then an update to the kernel is less likely to break > anything, than say Fedora which frequently ships new versions of the > kernel. One would hope that that these people complaining abut imperfect kernels in RHEL are find these bugs on their test boxes _before_ they deploy to production. > > And the second you add a driver and/or XFS on to RHEL5 you are > > now tainted and *UNSUPPORTED*. > Compared to Fedora where you are *UNSUPPORTED* at the offset? is XFS even in the vanilla kernel? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )