[Gllug] Kernel choices

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 02:31:47PM +0100, William Palfreman wrote:
> What are people's opinions on the correct kernel to use in production
> systems now?  More particularly, do people think 2.4.10 is now comparable
> security and stability wise with 2.2.19?  My experience running 2.4.2 and
> 2.4.3 earlier this year showed me they were very unsuitable (network and
> disk probs) compared to 2.2.19, but patches have moved on a bit since
> then.  I've seen some people talk positively about iptables and stateful
> packet filtering:  does that mean you would be willing to use 2.4.10 as a
> firewall?  If not, what systems would you run using 2.4.10 (or any earlier
> ones?).  It has been working fine on my workstations since about 2.4.4
> now, but they don't exactly do much real work.

I have been using 2.4.6 on an occasionally very heavily used m/c. Not had any problems.

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Alain Williams

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