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Looks like they're running 3.10 on RHEL7.4, which is a pretty old long term release. I mean there are long term 4.x branches now.

• vbezhenar 9y ago
  It's not 3.10 from kernel.org. There are many backported patches adding support for selected new features, new hardware, etc. It doesn't make much sense to just compare numbers.
  • wtallis 9y ago
    Comparing the version numbers gives a good impression of how much of a maintenance burden RedHat is taking upon themselves. You can't simply presume that RedHat's 3.10 fork is missing any particular feature or fix from future upstream versions, but it's quite obvious that RedHat's fork has to be missing something by now, and probably a lot of somethings.
    • xfs 9y ago
      Enterprise customers care much more about stability than features. Backporting features is always easy, if you consider the amount of work needed to have enterprise level guarantee on their quality. Weeding out bugs in features is much, much harder.
    • jlgaddis 9y ago
      I've got machines that have been running 7 since very shortly after GA and I can't say that I'm missing out on anything that I need.