From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161030AbWJRO2h (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:28:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161036AbWJRO2h (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:28:37 -0400 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.227]:31171 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161030AbWJRO2h (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:28:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=G7ESg0KFC8bhS2Z9tkKiJ5IwGD0juUwA9UBdx3cZW7tlidxbc9s35dNpeKFWfBhcVDAXDlPwsVPWVyjP/QD1D9fT9QoExpGOOWURTwo7ZSywOZX7SCaujEsfBaQUkXpw4Dm0Pocie0cDYgH5hj64T9qB2UBNOIzFE/SZCWSLdXE= From: Christopoulos Panagiwtis Organization: xxx To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Most stable kernel for mpich2 cluster? Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:28:25 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200610171430.01032.pxrist@gmail.com> <1161092423.24237.171.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1161092423.24237.171.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610181728.26372.pxrist@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 17 October 2006 16:40, Alan Cox wrote: > The older kernels shipped by vendors are not "vanilla source" because > that would lack all the bug and security fixing done. > > Alan You are right, I understand this now, I knew the meaning of "vanilla source" but didn't come in my mind that debian 2.6.8 for example is not vanilla source but a tree based on vanilla including patches from debian developers, sorry. I will follow Jacob's advice and I will ask in beowulf mailing list about what kernel I should use. I am two days in linux kernel lists and I can see that you work really hard here, so I won't annoy you again with such questions. keep up the good work, all of you, Panos (Alan, we have a poster of you in my university:p)