On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:44:25PM +0800, Jagi C. Sarcilla wrote: > If you purchase the orig box of redhat as 3, plus support, the redhat > doesnt allow you to recompile the kerel of as 3 even you use the source > they provided, it will void the support contract. > > recompiling the kernel is NOT ALLOWED by RED HAT! >
It's not that they won't ALLOW it. It's that they WON'T *SUPPORT* IT. By the way, this is also true for *all* of the enterprise Linux distributions, including SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Since the main thing you pay for when getting these enterprise Linuxes is the support contract, you'll essentially throw that away, and you might as well have used WBEL, Fedora, or any of the other distributions that you can obtain gratis. > huh!, baket? e opensource nga di ba?... Thats life! The binary kernels that Red Hat distributes are well tested over a wide range of hardware. If you roll your own kernel, then you're essentially using a kernel that isn't being used by anyone besides you. They would be crazy to support such a thing, seeing as even making a change such as using the wrong combination of gcc optimization flags can cause a kernel to behave unstably. That would be like supporting a product that you didn't actually make, and that's a situation no business would want to be in if they can avoid it. -- dido "...ang PUMATAY nang dahil sa iyo!" -- 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
