[CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Oct 30 22:33:58 UTC 2008


Linuxguy123 wrote:
> b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge)
> kernels.  For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to
> be running 2.6.18 kernels.  I do know how to build my own kernels, but
> that is a pain.
> 
> Does someone keep a separate repository that has more modern kernels ?
> Can yum be configured to use only specific packages (ie kernels) from a
> specific repository ?

Why not step up and offer to maintain a bleeding edge kernel in the 
centos-plus repos ?

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