Re: what is the best multi-SATA-controller-on-a-single-board out there?

Jon Lewis wrote:

some of the distros like to use heavily
patched kernels...so one distro's 2.4.x kernel may be quite different from
another's.  So unless you build custom kernels from the kernel.org
sources, kernel verion _and_ distro is more meaningful.

 

Sorry, I wasn't being clear - I interpreted "kernel version" as 
including specifying what distro patches were included.  e.g. Redhat 
EL's 2.4.9, or Debian's 2.4.26, kernel.org's 2.6.8rc2 etc. since you can 
- for example - run the redhat kernel, with Debian's userland e.g. 
http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/kernel-patch-redhat if you need 
to use some Redhat-only binary driver, or kernel feature).

Tim.