2009/8/27 Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:46, Sergio Belkin<sebelk at gmail.com> wrote: >> Jim, thanks for the suggestion, but Firstly: I need a newer kernel in >> order to get IO statistics from tools like atop, pidstat, etc. And >> secondly and most important: my boss wants that :) > > Then CentOS is not what you want. > > There is a reason why RHEL/CentOS does not ship with the latest kernel > (and other components) and backports fixes instead. It's not trivial > to make different versions of these components work together. If you > try to replace the kernel (or other core components) you will see how > painful it is. In fact, you started to see it already. You may try to > continue to go that way, but I doubt anyone in this list will be able > to help you there... you're pretty much on your own. > >> So I'd be glad to hear other kind of solution :) > > Look at the latest Fedora or Ubuntu or another one of the "cutting > edge" distributions that ship with more recent versions of components. > > Or ask yourself (or your boss) *WHY* you think you really need a later > version of a certain component. What is your real problem? Is it > support to a certain hardware? Is it network related? Is it > (unfounded) fear that the kernel in CentOS might be vulnerable? It > might be possible to solve your problem using CentOS in another way, > if you come back to the list with the real problem we might be able to > help you better. > > HTH, >Felipe I've just explained the reason why I've compiled. -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -