We have been using RHEL for over a year now with little to no complaints, ranging from systems as small as 9GB to as large as 4TB. Only problem I see with RHEL is the basic support is only 30 days and web support after that. We did have a problem with a particular RAID card in a certain type of x86 piece of hardware, but after the hardware vendor and redHat kept shifting blame, our software vendor said it was a known problem and that the RHEL upgrade fixed the problem. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One of our core applications is being ported to GNU/Linux, but the > developer > will only certify it for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (hereafter RHEL). > Please > do not suggest I try to run the application on a different flavor of > Linux. > The vendor certifies it only for RHEL, and won't officially support > other > distros. > > The system our core application currently resides on is an SGI > IRIX machine, now long in the tooth. The system manages some 500GB of > graphics > files on large arrays, and performs processing-intensive RIPs and other > file > conversions. > > We're evaluating upgrades, and the supported OS are IRIX, > Solaris, OSX, Windows and now RHEL. Each has strengths and weaknesses, > obviously. > In order to make as informed a decision as possible, I'd like to learn > about > the strengths and weaknesses of RHEL. > > We're unhappy with the expensive > boutique hardware of SGI, and are likewise skeptical of Sun. Apple OSX > is > very much a contender. > > However, we're drawn to the commodity prices of > x86 hardware, as well as the more general availability of parts and > service. > RHEL presents us with a new means to enjoy x86 hardware. > > Our only experience > with Red Hat was Red Hat Linux 8.0, which we used only for a simple > fileserver. > We have more experience with current versions of Debian and SuSE. > > * How > often have you folks had to rely on Red Hat's technical support, and how > would > you rate it? > * Have you experienced any trouble with RHEL "officially" supporting > various hardware, or run into other distro-specific restrictions? > * Allowing > that we do have Linux expertise, would you choose RHES over OSX? > > Remember, > we can't consider alternative Linux distros because they are not > supported > by the software vendor. > > Thanks in advance for any comments. > > Bob Shepherd > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
