On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:33:28PM +0200, Dewet Diener wrote:
> Op Do 23 Jan 03 21:20 skrewe Kim Nielsen:
> > I use USB devices with the gentoo-sources kernel and it works fine.
> > The differnce between the vanilla and gentoo is alot of patches for
> > things like grsecurity, freeswan etc.
> 
> That's my question (albeit stated very badly) -- how 
> reliable/tested/stable are those patches?  The case in point being the 
> grsecurity issues I've seen.  What I really want to know is whether 
> other people are using those features successfully, specifically 
> relating to a *server*-class setup (therefore, things like USB, etc 
> aren't that important).

The gentoo kernel is quite stable but Gentoo was never ment as a server distribution even though it serves
just as well as others like Redhat or Debian. 

It was intedned for network/developer use

/Kim