[WBEL-users] Kernel Upgrade to 2.6 series

[James Knowles]

>upgrade ... to kernel 2.6 series? 
>

My unwashed two cents worth... don't. ;-)

It's probably not necessary, and likely to cause more grief than needed. 
Quite a few of the 2.6 kernel performance features have been backported 
to the RHEL/WBEL 2.4 kernel.

There are some noticable differences. Under heavy IDE disk load, I 
notice the unresponsiveness typical to the 2.4 kernel, but it's *not* 
nearly as bad as a raw 2.4 kernel. I'll be doing more testing over the 
next couple of days, but overall I'm pretty impressed about the 
improvements.

I've read here that at least one person is having luck with Firewire 
drives (I'll be testing myself in the next two days). Firewire is 
horribly broken according to my 2.6 kernel tests.

I'm copying my workstation over to this brand new box with a fresh 
install of WBEL. So far so good. I'll really hammer the sucker 
tomorrow... oh... later today; it's 2am.



If you must have the 2.6 kernel, I'd recommend downloading Fedora Core 
2. Yes, it's bleeding edge and you'll likely cut yourself, but that's 
the difference between RHEL/WBEL and FC2... stability and polish. I've 
been on WBEL "for real" less than an hour and I can see many 
differences. I would call moving from FC2 to WBEL a positive step up at 
this point.