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Re: Kernel 2.6.20+ ? [message #27437 is a reply to message #27435] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 06:51 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/ovz3/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/theme/ovz3/images/down.png) |
vazir
Messages: 12 Registered: October 2007
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I think here is the balance for having Virtuozo as commercial featurefull/interface/other features product supporting/paying developers for work. Why Redhat would pay openVZ for it? Debian is the largest and most stable distro. If you have brain and hands - you use Debian - if you lasy and want someone solve your problems - you use Redhat and get their support. Everything in the world in the ballance. BUT - redhat OVZ kernel SRC have mess of thousands of the patches and when I have downloaded it - i can't quickly get any idea in what orderthey should be applied. Debian dos not have this mess (though having it's own tricks). Most things is clear and logical. I'm sure there is the tool or description/or something to apply this RH patches in order - but this is not the way I want spend my time to.
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Re: Kernel 2.6.20+ ? [message #27449 is a reply to message #27429] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 08:24 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/ovz3/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/theme/ovz3/images/down.png) |
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Quote: | You are so oriented to RedHat - But redhat is not the only distro, and not the most stable. I use Debian for last 7 years on all servers and WS, and so, have to build custom kernel for my installations.
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We try to support Debian as well, definitely not ignoring it.
What I mean when I say "use RHEL5-based kernel" is we currently maintain stability and hardware compatibility in this very kernel branch. Red Hat has about 7M of patches on top of 2.6.18 -- those are mostly bugfixes and driver updates. On top of that, we add OpenVZ patchset, plus our bugfixes and driver updates.
The fact that this kernel branch is based on RHEL5 kernel should not stop you from using it on your Debian box. All you need to do to compile your own kernel is to download vanilla 2.6.18, then apply our combined patch taken from http://openvz.org/download/kernel/rhel5, then configure, build, install and enjoy. Certainly there are other ways, too -- using alien to convert binary rpm to deb, creating your own deb, asking Debian maintainers to support this kernel branch etc.
Kir Kolyshkin
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