Re: still several problems with Red Hat Linux 9
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:50:04 -0700, Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> wrote: >Roland Wintgen <rw@evg.de> writes: >> I wonder what problems will arise when the RedHat releases the next >> version of the now called "Fedora" distribution. Has anyone tested the >> beta? > >I'd suspect that IBM will not support Fedora distributions, and will >decide to only support RHEL distributions from this point on. But I thought that IBM's strategy was to support a given kernel / glibc version level, not a given distribution.
John Carlson <john_carlson@whsmithusa.com> writes: > But I thought that IBM's strategy was to support a given kernel / > glibc version level, not a given distribution. I'm sure it was... five months ago... before NPTL and thread-local variables in glibc monkey-wrenched them. IBM seems unwilling to support new Red Hat releases at the same level they do for new HP-UX or Solaris releases. My clients are running on RHL7.3, but I have to have a plan to migrate them before 7.3 is end-of-lifed this year. My clients would prefer moving to RHEL3.0 when it's released this month, but they may be stuck paying to migrate to RHEL2.1, and then migrating again within a year, if IBM won't be releasing 4GL tools for 3.0 until 2004Q1. An alternative to throwing good money after bad is to recode my apps in Java so that my business and my client's won't be held hostage to IBM's lethargic 4GL tools on Linux support. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B