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One of the goals of Funtoo Linux is to provide a
system that is ready for use in a production server environment. Debian-sources is used by many people, and thus receives
updates related to system stability that other kernels may not always receive. debian-sources-lts
is akin to using a RHEL kernel, but is more current. It also allows us to use Debian's kernel configurations, which are maintained for us by the Debian project, and enable all hardware as kernel modules. This allows us to pre-build a kernel that works for everyone, which greatly reduces the complexity of a Funtoo install, without having to perform the tremendous amount of work of maintaining our own kernel. For kernels, there is strength in numbers. The more people that are using the kernel, the more issues are found, and the more problems are fixed. In the past, Funtoo has even offered Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernels, though this was primarily
done because we were using OpenVZ containers in production and this was the only supported kernel for OpenVZ.