On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:19:35AM +0800, Kelsey Hartigan Go wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Roger Filomeno wrote: > > > It for Linux's "maintenance" support. When you buy the commercial > > distros of linux, you acctually pay for this "maintenance" not the > > software (its like the software is still free). So expect a lot of > > call-center for linux soon popping up here ;p > > >
The Red Hat call center is actually here. In this country. :) > Speaking of which, I think everybody knows the difference between > Red Hat AS/ES vs. Red Hat v 9, Fedora core etc... > > What I want to know, is, if you update your kernel, will it still be > hardened like AS/ES? Does it matter where you get the kernel from? > Or should you get it from RedHat? > hmmm... Hardened? I wouldn't use the word "hardened" to describe the AS/ES kernels. It has a lot of stability patches and support for exotic enterprise hardware like FibreChannel HBA's, better support for gigabit network cards, and so forth. It's also a platform where vendors of enterprise software like Oracle test their stuff for certification, so they'll only bother to give you Oracle on Linux support if you're actually running one of the standard and certified Red Hat or SuSE kernels. Vendors of enterprise hardware like HP, IBM, EMC, Emulex, and Qlogic all use official kernels from either Red Hat or SuSE as the baseline for all of their driver packages, and retrofitting these drivers so they work with other kernels is a tedious task at best, and you can expect no support from the vendors even if you manage to succeed. So yes, it does matter where you get your kernel from if you're running an enterprise system. If you don't get it from Red Hat, you run the risk of losing all the support you should be getting. And believe me, if you're running an enterprise system you'll need this support to even get it *running*. -- dido Te capiam, cuniculus sceleste! -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
