[ale] CentOS 6.6 Kernels?

[leam hall]

I believe RHEL/CentOS 7 uses the 3.x kernel. The "RH" way is to include
security fixes but not change the first two version numbers. So your kernel
should be okay, security wise, but not with the latest enhancements.



On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:27 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> I'm new to CentOS. Last time I used Redhat was around 2000-2002-ish.  Been
> a
> Unix and Linux admin since the mid-1990s.  Installed a CentOS 6.6 minimal
> server
> this week, did a yum upgrade and rebooted.
>
> The kernel is like - 40 yrs old - is that normal or RHEL/CENT?
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux cent18 2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 22 06:48:29 UTC 2015
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> I've been having fun learning the redhat ways of doing things the last few
> days.
> Fun, fun.
>
> So - do I just need to reset expectations for using a 3.x kernel?
>
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