On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 12:22, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Mon December 29 2003 12:02 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I have a couple of 8.2 servers that I exclusively use to run Samba.
I need to upgrade to a newer kernel, and I'm wondering if it is safe to just upgrade to the latest 9.0 kernel, or if I need to upgrade the full distribution.
Any reason why you can't just build a new kernel from www.kernel.org? 2.4.23 is now the latest. Running it here with xfs.
I've done it in the past and can do it again, but for production servers I really believe there is a value-add from the SUSE distro kernels. One simple example is if there is a security issue with a kernel. If it is a SUSE kernel, then SUSE will patch it and release an updated kernel via YOU. If it is a vanilla kernel, then you are on you own. Admittedly, it is not that hard to do yourself, but I like knowing that SUSE is out there looking for issues and fixing them for me. One less thing I have to do. Greg -- Greg Freemyer