[Leaplist] Kernel version on CenTOS/RHEL 5.3 ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

John Simpson wrote:
> On 2009-05-03, at 1347, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> .... I have spent about a half hour this A.M. scouring through 
>> release notes & announcements for CentOS 5.3 (RHEL 5.3) & can find 
>> *no* mention of what kernel version it uses :-/ .... Anyone know ? 
>> TIA ....
>
> this is on my own child session on my server, running centos 5, using 
> the original kernel which centos 5.2 installed:
>
> Linux phineas.jms1.net 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 09:33:52 
> EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> it's a bit out of date because i'm very leery about doing kernel 
> updates on a xen machine, parent *or* child session. i want to 
> physically go down to the server and do the upgrades in person rather 
> than doing it via ssh and risk the machine becoming non-booting, and i 
> haven't really had the time to run down there and do it.
>
> this on the linux server at my house, also running centos 5, but with 
> the kernel updated to the most recent version:
>
> Linux hydra.internal 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:19:18 EDT 
> 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> i know centos copies what redhat enterprise is doing. it looks like 
> RHEL5/centos5 is using a 2.6.18 kernel, and any bug fixes and security 
> fixes are being done as patches rather than as new versions of the 
> kernel.
>
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Roger that, thanks. I am interested in kvm, thus I (apparently) want 
2.6.20+.


Also roger that on the auto-upgrades, I have seen *way* too many posts 
on various lists that began 'I just did an automatic <yum/yast/whatever> 
upgrade last night & this A.M. my box won't boot' ....


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