[KLUG Members] Re: This is why I use RedHat kernels ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Jamie McCarthy wrote:
> Thanks.  That turned into a Slashdot story last night and the
> discussion on it looks pretty good.  Reading at threshold 3,
> I see lots of good contributions.

Again, I see lots of people running RedHat kernels with few oopses. 
Same deal with SGI kernels.  Both RedHat and SGI do both Samba _and_
*NFS* stress testing of them.  NFS is the main reason why RedHat
doesn't support ReiserFS.

I think people also forget that you should _always_test_ a kernel
_extensively_ before putting it into production.  I usually try to
find a user who wants the "latest 'n greatest" and unleach them with
it.  I also try to "keep current" myself.

Now with small offices that have only 1 Linux box (like the server),
I know that's a bit difficult.  But you should _always_ have a
"backup" system anyway, even if its the sysadmin's desktop PC.  It
never hurts to buy a similarly configured desktop PC (short of the
storage/backup components) when you buy a server**.  You never know
when you might need to "swap" a component at a moment's notice.  ;-P

-- Bryan

**NOTE:  That's how I always sell the boss on getting a
dual-processor desktop for myself.  ;-P

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