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Originally Posted by fuzebox
To be fair, 5.5 has been changed to RELEASE for a while now... If there are no published issues with their hardware and the particular kernel build, I see no reason to compile a new one just to appease shell users with access to "uname". I have been running pre-release kernels for 6-8 years as a sysadmin on production systems at hosting companies and ASPs with no problems.
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As an admin, you have to admin that most would upgrade the kernel to an official release at the same time you upgrade your http daemon and assorted support code for security purposes at the same time, even if it WAS mostly superficial.
On the other side of the coin: Why wouldn't they stick to 5.4-R, if they're not going to upgrade PHP? What magical features did 5.5-R have that evidently did not cure (many of) their hardware ails?
Secondly, I don't care how competant you are, you do NOT put a beta kernel into production unless there's a damn good reason. "Because it's newer." is not a good enough reason. That's just good admin.
.. but now we're getting off track.
