Why does RHEL (and its derivatives) use such an old kernel? It uses 2.6.32-xxx, which seems old to me. How do they support newer hardware with that kernel? As far as I know these kind of distributions do run on fairly modern hardware.
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asked Jan 22, 2013 at 19:55
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4Because Red Hat Enterprise Linux is foremost about stability, and is a long-lived distribution (some 10 years guaranteed). RHEL users don't want anything to change unless absolutely necessary. But note that the base version of the kernel is old, RHEL's kernel contains lots of backported stuff and bug fixes, so it isn't really old.
answered Jan 22, 2013 at 20:56
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2Here is a table of kernel versions used in each RHEL release so far.
To summarize:
On each RHEL major release, the kernel version is frozen at the time of the initial release, and any security patches and driver updates are backported to that kernel version.
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