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Why does Red Hat Linux use such an old kernel?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – 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. (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 01/23/2013

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