[lug] stock kernels

[Jason W. Strnad]

Until recently one reason to use a Linus kernel (as opposed to a RedHat 
  kernel) was the new VM subsystem (which the kernel developers were 
actively working with) rather than the older VM subsystem (which they 
weren't) that RedHat continued using.  That midstream change was quite 
controversial at the time and RedHat chose to keep rev'ing old kernels 
and backporting patches rather than switch to the new VM.  It is true 
that one of the different subsystems would perform better than the 
other under specific high load conditions, and there may be some 
benefit in using one over the other for certain applications.

In addition RedHat will remove certain drivers/etc (in addition to 
adding some) from the RH kernels that don't perform suitably in their 
QA testing.  Using a 'Linus' kernel in those cases may allow for use of 
specific devices (or whatever), with the understanding that there was 
probably a reason RH didn't include that support in their kernel.

Personally, when I use RH (or SuSE or Mandrake, etc), I tend to use 
their kernels unless I have some specific reason not to.

-jasons

PS- I'm not David, and am interested in his reasoning, but the above 
are my thoughts on the matter.

On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 09:21 AM, John Hernandez wrote:

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> David, can you explain why?  I'm curious because I used to build my own
> from kernel.org source, but once the novelty of keeping up with the
> latest wore off, I find the RH kernel binaries to be very adequate.
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> What's the benefit of using a "stock" Linus kernel?
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> David Morris wrote:
> | (if you get the kernel from kernel.org
> | which I *highly* recommend over a pre-packaged kernel)
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