On 4/20/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:19:24PM -0700, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> > This has got to be one of the more bizzare things I've seen.
> >
> > Do I need to dig around in the mess of kernel patches, or
> > just be happy that I can do my necessary networking tasks for now and slate
> > an OS refresh to RHEL4 in the near future?
>
> I would not dare anything but the latter.
>
> Without having any reference to send you to, I believe I know the
> following things. First, RH has no compunctions about introducing kernel
> modifications to make their distros run nice. This isn't really
> cheating: many of their patches make it in, and they always make
> pristine source available. But in any RH distro, there are kernel
> patches, and you can't just drop in someone else's kernel; and RHEL is
> the flagship product designed for stability.
>
> Thus I'm neither surprised nor upset to learn that RHEL's kernel is a
> hybrid. RH would justifiably expect anyone using it to have a support
> contract (or eat dirt and die horribly -- not their problem).
>
> BTW, I'm using FC3 at my work even though I think RHEL is the way to go.
> The reason is that I'm still trying to get the camel in under the edge
> of the tent (or in this case, the penguin). So I'm running FC3 as a
> server on an abandoned secretarial desktop. My cunning plan is to
> make the services it provides gradually migrate from conveniences to
> strategic necessities, and _then_ suggest that maybe we should at least
> use a cast-off server with a paid-up RHEL contract, just like real
> businesses.
Side comment on FC4. Now that I have the Qemu emulator running on my
main system, I can play with different distributions without losing
anything except my copious spare time.
The past couple of days I have tried FC4 test 2.
My initial observation is that some things are not ready for prime
time. In particular, up2date told me that there were some 180
packages to update after the install from CDs. Including up2date
itself. But "up2date up2date" seems to hang forever, as did the
equivalent from the GUI.
Working with "yum" because it is more chatty, I found that at least 60
of those packages did not have digital signatures, and were rejected.
So I gave up before trying them all.
carl
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