We are thinking about using Debian Woody or Mandrake Linux.
There's a soft spot in my heart for Debian. I use it on my PEs and it works great. Honestly, I can't see anyone actually recommending RHEL over Debian from a management and support perspective. security.debian.org are really top-notch.
I have a question about Debian kernel for dell : I have installed a Woody using the debian installer : http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/debian/
It works ok, my Raid card is working well with the megaraid 2.10.1 integrated in the kernel installed by kveton installer.
BUT
Now, what about kernel updates by the debian Securiy Team ? If I'm not wrong, the official 2.4 woody kernel is 2.4.18-1 and contains old drivers (megaraid v1.18). And when a kernel exploit is discovered, the security team upgrade the woody 2.4.18-1 kernel, not the one shipped with the kveton installer :-)
So does it means that if I want to use Debian on my PE Servers, I'll need to maintain my own .deb kernel packages, and compile new ones each time an exploit is discovered ?
I used to proceed this way : create and distribute my own kernels packages on RedHat 5.2 because isdn staff was too old. But this is really a work overhead.
Can I have opinions ?
David ROBERT.
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