OT: printing filepro on SERIAL PORT Linux

[D. Thomas Podnar]

 > Oh, my gosh folks, you'll have to excuse me. I've got to go and tell all
 > our Fedora Core clients that they are going to have to stop using their
 > BackupEDGE products, right now.
 >
 > When they ask me why, I guess I'll tell them that I was reading the
 > filePro mailing list and Enrique Arredondo wrote...
 >
 >> "(Now I wonder why Microlite's BE won't support Fedora Core AT ALL!!)"
 >
 > So it must be true.
 >
 > Cheers to all, and Merry Christmas.
 >
 > Tom
 
 I think I misunderstood this from your website, sorry about 
 that.ftp://ftp.microlite.com/support/rhfedora.ts.txt

You've got me there, Henry. We've messed up.

That text is, of course, directly at odds with our home page, which
currently states:

  "Now certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 5, Novell
  SUSE Linux 9.x and 10.x Desktop and Server on IA32, EM64T and AMD64."
 
and our Linux 2.6 / page (on the link whose title on the home page is:
"Linux 2.6 Kernel and Fedora Support Information"), which amplifies...

  "Later releases also add support for Fedora (Core 3, Core 4, and Core 5),
   with the following limitations:"

  "Because of the frequency of updates to Fedora, support is on a "best
   effort" basis. While we will make every effort to keep up with the
   latest patches to it, we cannot guarantee that they will not be
   introduced faster than we can qualify them."

Despite our feelings and Red Hat's statements on Fedora, we saw that clients
viewed it as Red Hat 10 and were going to deploy it anyway. So we bit the
bullet and started supporing it at Core 3, when we brought out our first
2.6 kernel support at the 2.6.9 level (I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel
for any 2.6 kernel prior to that). That was in 02.01.02, April 2005.

I'd have been very grateful if you'd pointed that old link in the support
database out in an email, since we obviously missed it. I appreciate knowing
about it now: we'll push an update to the web site on Monday morning to
delete it.



We currently have Fedora Core 6 in the lab, and have 32 and 64 bit Suse 10.2
CDs and DVDs in transit for certification. We're aware of a change in
disaster recovery for FC6 (and that seems to have propogated back to
the latest FC5 updates) that must be addressed. It's listed in the kernel
sites as a bug, so we're not sure whether to write around it or wait for
new kernel patches to be released, and test it then.


Regards,
Tom Podnar