From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750889AbWJQNN1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:13:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750890AbWJQNN1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:13:27 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:17037 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888AbWJQNN0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:13:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Most stable kernel for mpich2 cluster? From: Alan Cox To: Christopoulos Panagiotis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200610171430.01032.pxrist@gmail.com> References: <200610171430.01032.pxrist@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:40:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1161092423.24237.171.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 14:30 +0300, ysgrifennodd Christopoulos Panagiotis: > decide the best version. 2.6.18.1 is out but I think that it' s not a good > idea to install the latest kernel, so, I would like to tell me your > opinion(eg, I think debian is using 2.6.8(too old!)). > What would you do? The older kernels shipped by vendors are not "vanilla source" because that would lack all the bug and security fixing done. Alan