[ale] Distro Reply

[Raylynn Knight]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 12:48 -0500, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:25:28 -0500, Raylynn Knight
> <audilover at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> 
> > And just how many production servers are running a prism54 wireless
> > card?
> 
> Probably not many, but there are several thousand...if not
> million...Dell Poweredge systems out there with PERC3 RAID controllers
> which are notoriously flaky with 2.2.x series kernels regardless of
> the driver used. I had better stability with NT4 SP3 on those systems
> back in the 2.2 days! 2.4.(somewhere around 18) cured all that. We can
> discount the prism cards all day long, but are you willing to brush
> off a key component in one of the most widely deployed x86 server
> lines? Then of course there's the issue of systems with more than 2GBs
> of RAM, but who ever heard of such a silly thing as a production
> machine with a lot of RAM? Patches? Patches?!!! We don't need no
> steenking patches. There's this nifty project called the 2.4 series
> kernel.
> 
And as has been pointed out multiple times the 2.4 kernel is available
on Debian stable install disks.  RTFM.


-- 
Raylynn Knight <audilover at speedfactory.net>