On 10/10/05, S Destika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't need to patch the Kernel on your own if you use vendor supported > ones. You are > comparing freeware Linux distro with paid Solaris support. > > Enterprises go with RHEL, SLES and with support - Redhat/SuSE fix whatever is > busted. > There are many shops running Linux in their Enterprise. One of them even > posted here.
I administer a cluster of RHEL3 machines actually, and you seem to have several misconceptions about it. We don't use 4, even though it has been out for some time, because nearly all the applications we use aren't supported under it. They update the kernel frequently, though their changelog's are too ambiguous to discern exactly what they changed. Enterprise 3 has been out for some time, yet new kernel revisions end up in the stable channel at least once a month, so I'll grant you its not daily (but then I don't keep up with how often 4 releases new kernels, maybe it is nearly that often). I must say, they break our applications much less frequently than in the early days of 3, when rebooting from 2.4.21-9.0.2 to -9.0.3 really ran a chance of causing segfaults in important programs. Their actual tech support is subpar as far as I'm concerned, and on the few occasions I've contacted them I concluded they knew even less than I did about our problems and will just make stuff up when they can't help you (yes, really). So I would have to assume based on your admiration for the product you have no actual experience with it, outside of running it on your personal machine, or at all. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
