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SubjectRe: Distributions vs kernel development
Timothy Miller wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
>> After having being burned twice: first by Mandrake and supermount,
>> and second
>> by SuSe and reiserfs attributes; are any of the distributions
>> committed to
>> making sure that their distribution will run the standard kernel?
>> (ie. 2.6.X from
>> kernel.org).
>
>
> I use Gentoo for this.

As do I, I've never had a problem with a Vanilla kernel or one of
Gentoo's maintained kernels. Gentoo actually supports the 2.6 kernel,
at least on AMD64 hardware that's all they support. Though the vanilla
kernels -do- work flawlessly, I still prefer the Gentoo patched kernels:

>>> Unpacking linux-2.6.5.tar.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5-r1/work
* genpatches-2.6-5.29-base.tar.bz2 unpacked
* genpatches-2.6-5.29-extras.tar.bz2 unpacked
* Applying
gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5.CAN-2004-0109.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
1105_CAN-2004-0075-usb-vicam.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
1305_x86_64-2.6.5-rc3.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
1310_k8_cardbus_io.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
1315_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
1905_bluetooth-oops.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
2110_bcm5700_broadcom_gigabit_drvr_11272003.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
2115_fa311-mac-address-fix.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
2320_adaptec_dpt_i2o.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
2325_3ware-cmds_per_lun.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
2705_powernow-k8-acpi.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
3110_low-latency-cond_resched.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
3305_am9-2.6.4.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
3310_cfq-4.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
4105_lirc_infrared-2.6.5-rc2.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
4505_bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.5-rc2.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
4705_squashfs-1.3r3.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
4710_lufs-0.9.7-2.6.0-test9.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
4715_supermount-2.0.4-2.6.5_rc1.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
4720_gcloop-2.6-20040330.patch...
[ ok ]
* Applying
4905_speakup_accessibility.patch...
[ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.

The k8/x86_64, broadcom, and bootsplash patches in particular make me
happy. They tend to stay within one or two minor kernel revisions of
the current branch. I've had production 2.6 servers for months.

-ryan
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