On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Derwyn Dpenha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually if you look at banking/ finance sector and any company that > is going in for certification one of the criteria states that you need > to have a licence OS. > > What is a licensed OS? Pretty Slackware/Ubuntu/Debian all are licensed ( GPL License ). And no redhat with it's redhat 6 is a 2.6.32 kernel which has module > support for hw. I'm sure if you can get a latest stable kernel and/or > compile the modules yourself you should be good to go. > > Point of using Red Hat is to save efforts on building (and maintaining) OS images for various host families. An enterprise would typically have blades + SAN hardware from multiple vendors. If you want to compile kernel and packages yourself, then LFS (Linux From Scratch) is not that bad a choice :) . -Shamit -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
