Hi, On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:22, Steven Vishoot<sir_funzone at yahoo.com> wrote: > just wondering, why would you not want the latest kernel? Because it will potentially not run "as smooth" as the kernel version shipped by CentOS. While newer kernels typically improve hardware support, they also introduce changes that are incompatible with the userland utilities provided in CentOS, so these changes may actually *break* something that works with an older version... It's all part of what is called an "Enterprise Linux Distribution". When you choose such a distribution, you basically accept that some of your packages will be somewhat outdated (with backports for security issues) but on the other hand you know the components have been more tested together than with other "bleeding edge" distros... If you want to run a more updated kernel, you should probably look into Fedora or Ubuntu. If you want to run *the* latest kernel, you should probably look into Gentoo. However those are admittedly not as stable as CentOS/RHEL is. HTH, Filipe