[CentOS] which kernel do people use?

[Earl Ramirez]

On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:44 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you use
> on your CentOS machines?  Not which version of the CentOS kernel, but
> which repository.  Here are some examples I can think of off the top of
> my head:
> 
> ==CentOS stock
> ==build own from CentOS SRPMs
> ==kernel-ml (from ELRepo)
> ==kernel-lt (from ELRepo)
> ==OpenVZ kernel
> ==build own from kernel.org
> ==other?
> 
> One reason I'm curious is that on occasion there are features that I
> would like to have from a newer kernel (e.g., --want-replacement from
> md) that (AFAICT) are not in the stock CentOS kernel.  I've been using
> kernel-ml for these but am curious what other folks do in these
> situations, or whether people default to a different kernel for whatever
> reason.
> 
> (And as an aside, who remembers when moving even from, say, a 1.2 to a
> 1.4 kernel, was an enormous amount of effort?  I'm so old.  Now anybody
> can go from a 2.6 to a 3.11 kernel in less than ten minutes!)
> 
> --keith
> 

I use ELRepo's Kernel-ml for an ASUS laptop and all servers and HP
laptops use the stock kernel.

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Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez
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