what you do is pick none of them. whoever thinks that running a ~8-15 year old kernel with a couple thousand back-ported patches is somehow "stable" in a good w

what you do is pick none of them. whoever thinks that running a ~8-15 year old kernel with a couple thousand back-ported patches is somehow "stable" in a good way is full of it. pick ANYTHING not in the RHEL family. Pick Debian. Pick Ubuntu. Arch. Suse, etc. unless you want Windows (R) Server 2008 packaged in a linux form, you don't want RHEL.