I'd say: Three cheers for the SuSE folks. You seem to have worked *very* hard on getting the new kernel out and, considering an earlier post by Roman (?), the 2.2.19 kernel is very good. Thanks a lot.

Now I don't want to spoil your fun but just as an informative question: I have always questioned the connection SuSE release 7.1 -- kernel 2.4.0. Having seen so many kernels come and go, I tend to distrust them when the minor number is under 8 or so. Is it true that that connection is made mostly for marketing reasons (which I don't blame you for, you have to sell boxes to have the time/money that you spent last weeks)??

And do you indirectly advise us to use the 2.2.19 kernel, unless we have special needs that are only covered in 2.4.x?? And where does that leave the super security aware, how does iptables (2.4.x) trade-off against the overall stability and reliability of 2.2.19??

The decision what kernel to run is not only one-dimensional - there are several aspects to it: Stability/reliability, Security, features, performance, scalability and compatibility. I just have to say that I have never seen a 2.2.19 crashing, and we have a really large testfield here. :-)

just musing (while switching over to 2.2.19), Dirk

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