[TriLUG] Kernel slowdown

[Daniel T. Chen]

On 2 Jan 2002, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> What are some other people's views on this?  Who uses stock 
> kernels and who compiles their own?

Depends on the target hardware. For my primary development machine, I
use "vanilla" ones from kernel.org and apply tested-and-approved
patches from lkml. For ones that end up going to other customers, I pull
from SuSE's testing sets (which are essentially tested-and-approved from
lkml).

> If you compile your
> own, what distribution do you use and have you noticed any
> problems?  Hmm... this sounds like it would make an interesting
> survey...

I use Debian, but I avoid stock distro kernels, and for it I've managed
to eek out a lot of snags in the "vanilla" kernel.org kernels. There is
something to be said about Red Hat and SuSE's tested-and-approved stock
kernels, though. In particular Cerberus is an incredible test suite.

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