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Of course. The tone of the top-level comment, I think, is "woah, Debian, you call this kernel updated?" Rock-solid distros like RHEL/CentOS and Debian are del
by oinksoft 13y ago
Of course.
The tone of the top-level comment, I think, is "woah, Debian, you call this kernel updated?"
Rock-solid distros like RHEL/CentOS and Debian are deliberately conservative. Some folks don't like that.
- danieldk 13y agoBut Red Hat used to (they probably still do) continuously backport a lot of drivers an functionality from newer kernels to their older, stable, kernel for the first 5.5 years after a release: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ So I don't think RHEL/CentOS can be compared here to Debian.
- ra 13y agoAlso more hardware support is less important on a server. Even less important on a virtualised server.