On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:34 +0000, "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 01/25/2011 10:24 AM, Dave wrote: > > after watching the security alerts for the centos kernel I've the > > impression that altought they are fixed fastly there are more alerts > > than for the vanilla one of the same version. > > vanilla one for the same version isnt really that actively maintained is > it ? Also, the EL kernels contain a fair bit of backports which makes > things a bit more interesting. Not sure. That's why I'm asking for. eg 2.6.32 >> 2.6.32.28 (longterm) are there only improvements but no fixes? On the other hand EL kernels are as far as I got information from here more adapted to Industry needs. So they have special code added vanilla kernels don't have. Right? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service