Hacker News Reader

Centos/rhel are on a pretty old kernel at this point though?

We run the latest mainline kernel on all our 200-300ish CentOS hosts after it's passed standard testing and is available in Elrepo: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

Back when we ran Debian everywhere I wrote a CI project that would build the latest mainline kernel, applying GRSec and adding some SELinux policies in as best I could (backported from CentOS/Fedora funnily enough) and build them into a Debian package for deployment across our hosts, see: https://github.com/sammcj/kernel-ci

For Centos 7 its 3.10 according to good old http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos

and it's whatever is the latest, stable, tested version of the kernel when using Elrepo's Kernel-ml repo: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

Reply on news.ycombinator.com