For personal use anything is game;=20 2.2, 2.4, 2.6...or 2.5, 2.7 if you like. But for (RAC) Oracle...Oracle documentation=20 is very specific about wich kernel you *will* use. Chris Marquez Oracle DBA HEYMONitor(tm) - heymonitor.com "Oracle Monitoring & Alerting Solution" -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mladen Gogala Sent: Fri 1/21/2005 4:50 PM To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx Cc: stellr@xxxxxxxxxx; Don Granaman; oracle-l Subject: Re: intel clusters in a box Jared Still wrote: >You left out an important component: the Linux vendor. > >Suse should be given serious consideration. It is in many >respects superior to RedHat. > >For starters, they use the 2.6 kernel rather than = hacking^H^H^H^Hporting >new features into the 2.4 kernel. > >Jared > =20 > I must say that I like their evil ways with the kernel. So far, I've had = loads of trouble with 2.6 kernel. I upgraded my FC3 box to 2.6.10 and, = immediately, my linux-wlan-ng stopped working (the new kernel changed the driver interface, and it fails to load) so I have to use orinoco = which doesn't support WEP. Fun with nvidia drivers and 2.6 kernel is = very well known, an the same goes for the ALSA drivers. Staying with 2.4 is a very smart move if we want a stable OS. The latest 2.6 kernel still = has ways to go before maturing to acceptable level. I switched from 2.2 to 2.4 when 2.4.14 appeared on the market. I don't consider SuSE's = eagerness to start proliferating the 2.6 version as a laudable move. -=20 Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l