On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:37:51 +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
If you really, really, REALLY need custom-compiled kernels or systems which provide functionality that the stock enterprise distros don't provide - you can ask your provider (RedHat or SUSE) to do it for you. They do it for the upper-level support groups and they do it really very well. It's one of those services they don't advertise on their website but it's available if you call them up and pay them thousands of dollars more for premium support. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
