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[vondur]

Interesting that they are using Redhat 7.6 with a 3.3 kernel. I'm guessing RedHat must backport a bunch of stuff in order to make an older Linux release work well on such newer hardware.

[raverbashing → vondur]

> RedHat must backport a bunch of stuff

Yes. Though you have also the option of running a newer kernel (through EPEL but maybe not necessarily)

[aorth → raverbashing]

It's actually ELRepo, which is community run, not EPEL, which is semi officially run by Red Hat. But yes, very impressive you can get latest stable and long term kernels on CentOS!

[technofiend → vondur]

Redhat only added Linux 4 kernel in RHEL 8. As you stated they backport a ton of stuff for customers.

[moonbug → vondur]

no guessing required. That's exactly RH's approach.