Re: [Xen-users] Some questions from a novice

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> [...]  If you want a more stable server OS, try CentOS.  CentOS 5 uses
>
> > the 2.6.18 kernel w/ drivers backported to enhance its hardware support.
>
> Mark, could you please share URLs for getting started with that?  I'm
> sure many on-list will appreciate the extra information.

Apologies for the late response.

Hmmm.  Well, http://www.centos.org is the homepage of the CentOS project.

Details of the CentOS Plus repository which contains a kernel with extra 
features enabled relative to the default CentOS configuration: 
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/CentOSPlus

Note that the CentOS Plus kernel enables extra features in the build, but the 
vanilla CentOS kernel does (I believe) already contain some backported 
hardware support from newer kernel versions, so it may already contain stuff 
that the equivalent mainline kernel version does not.  I don't know if CentOS 
Plus backports even more stuff or just enables more compile options.

I unfortunately can't find a reference for the backporting of features to the 
vanilla CentOS / RHEL kernel codebase; I've found multiple references but 
nothing definitive.  I believe it's part of RedHat's practices though this 
might be best confirmed by one of the RH developers.

Cheers,
Mark

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