> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Dave Close > > Because Fedora is a perfectly good server OS and, for this purpose, is > essentially identical to the officially supported RHEL.
Even if you compare centos vs RHEL, I would not say centos is supported as well on Dell as RHEL. So I definitely disagree that fedora would be just as good. This is not to say I wouldn't do it... I'm sure it usually works fine. But you have to accept a little bit of increased level of unexplainable glitches, and lack of software compatibility, such as trying to install the OMSA client, or any of the Dell custom drivers/firmware (including the NIC and Storage drivers.) > In fact, Dell > provided a bootable CentOS CD (labeled RHEL) which exhibited the same > problem. We also tried the latest Intel driver, which is about two rev > numbers newer than the driver in any of the releases tried, and it had > the same problem. Clearly, this was not a OS issue. If the memory > interleaving could cause and clear the problem, it seems to me to be > clearly a hardware bug. I certainly do not take exception to the idea you experienced a hardware bug. They're known to happen. And in that case, your choice of OS wasn't the cause. But I still do take exception to saying fedora is "essentially identical to the officially supported RHEL." _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
