Subject: Re: [vserver] seeking advicce on Host OS selection
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:41:39 +0200

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:06:24AM +0200, Peter Mann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:21:51AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:42:54PM +0200, Peter Mann wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 08:26:35PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > good support seems to be there for Fedora, Centos,
> > > > Gentoo and Mandriva and Debian (but it is recommended 
> > >                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> > > > to build the kernel yourself) packages should be
> > >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > available for all of them, you might even get away
> > > > by using the debian packages for ubuntu
> > > 
> > > why is recommended to build Debian kernel ??? i have no problem
> > > with distro kernels 
> > 
> > it is recommended to build custom kernels. period. :)
> 
> ok ... i understand "(but it is recommended to build the kernel
> yourself)" specifically for Debian in your post, but you mean 
> "build the kernel yourself" generally???

yep

> "good support seems to be there for Fedora, Centos, Gentoo and 
>                                                            ^^^ 

that should have been a colon too, I probably just
forgot about Debian at that point ...

> Mandriva and Debian (but it is recommended ..." ....
>          ^^^

> > why? for several reasons:
> 
> yes ... i agree with all arguments ... so it's no specifically 
> problem with Debian vserver enabled kernels ...

besides the fact that they are sometimes broken,
no, the suggestion is for all distros ...

best,
Herbert

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