[Gllug] 2.6.31 is out

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Matthew King <matthew.king at monnsta.net> wrote:
> Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Just out of interest, what do you do if you want to run the latest and
>> greatest kernel?  If you're running one of the 'Enterprise' flavours
>> of Linux, there won't be a package, and if you build your own from
>> scratch I'd be surprised if you'd then be offered any support.  Do you
>> run Gentoo or Slackware, or something that is supportive / encouraging
>> of DIY solutions?  Or do you just go ahead an build your own anyway?
>
> Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) have facilities to create package files
> from a pristine kernel source. I don't know what they'd do about support
> but I doubt you'd be turned away.

Not entirely sure if I count Ubuntu as an 'Enterprise' distribution -
but even if we do I would be absolutely staggered if you tried to get
support through the terms of your contract if you were running a
home-built kernel.  Of course you may not care about that - but my
(limited) experience of HPC setups is that they tend to run Redhat or
SUSE.  I was just wondering if John had experience of running new
kernels under this setup.

S.
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Stephen Nelson-Smith
Technical Director
Atalanta Systems Ltd
www.atalanta-systems.com
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