Re: Which Linux?
"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> writes: > That (RedHat's push towards supporting only its paid versions) is of course > one of the considerations. As a correspondent to UK's Computer Weekly put > it recently, just as Microsoft has finally acknowledged it has something to > fear from Linux, one of the major suppliers has rocked the boat. I'm not so sure that Red Hat is on the up and up with their Enterprise product support. RHEL3, for example, doesn't support ISA sound cards (whereas RHEL2.1 did), bindconf is horribly broken to the point of being completely unusable (and still hasn't been fixed after four months), the sendmail-devel rpm isn't included (so no sendmail milters can be built unless you build the sendmail src.rpm and install it yourself), and IBM still has no JVM that does NPTL (so the Java2 rpms that ship with RHEL3 seg faults without hand-crafted wrappers). But IDS-9.40.UC3 and CSDK-2.81.UC3 and the 7.31 4GL tools seem to work ok. I couldn't get Java in IIF-9.40.UC3 to work because of the non-NPTL JVM issue described above. > Fancy Redhat wanting to make money out of their distribution. Especially since RHEL3 should work at least as well as RHL9 did since they are charging more money for a more "stable" "Enterprise" version. I guess "stable" means "static" (as in "it takes us a really long time to fix bugs now") and "generally a superset" means "you're on your own to find the pieces we deliberately left out". > How vulgar! By not selling what they advertised in their whitepaper? I agree. I might even go so far as to say "unscrupulous"! I'm currently evaluating Progeny support for RHL7.3, since that was pretty close to what IBM used to do their Linux port and I can't seriously recommend RHEL3 to any of my clients, yet. -- 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
Ronald Cole wrote: >I'm not so sure that Red Hat is on the up and up with their Enterprise >product support. RHEL3, for example, doesn't > <SNIP> You missed out that you cannot compile all of the packages included in RHEL3.0 on a stock RHEL3.0 install - you need to download a heap of extra packages in order to do that. Their aims are dubious at best. -- Scott Burns Mirrabooka Systems Tel +61 7 3857 7899 Fax +61 7 3857 1368