Debian et al: was re: Mandriva

[Net Llama!]

On 05/14/2005 03:40 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> CentOS fits because of the work connection, and it's mostly an
> effortless proposition to keep up a relatively modern base. There
> aren't any critical bugs for me, a workstation user. Server users with
> RAID setups, OTOH, seem to have a little more difficulty getting the
> RedRat stuff to work with the myriad controllers and RAID setups, and
> RedRat will probably never offer anything except roll your own for the
> vast numbers of folks who don't want EXT3. Of course, the CentOS folks
> are working on an alternative kernel and support in their PLUS repo
> for the functions that RedRat omitted. I'm running that kernel now
> with no problems on my workstation, but I'm not leaving the EXT3 camp.

If you're a big enough customer, RH will give you whatever you want, 
including custom kernels.

> OTOH, my lifetime gripe about the RedRat bunch is that they have the
> annoying habit (like M$ <grin>) of going out of their way to change
> the rules of the game and to make upgrading difficult. An example: LVM
> support. The wise-A??s decided to ship a partially crippled, still in
> development LVM2 in place of the older but works AOK LVM. On the
> released version of RHEL4/CentOS4/Fedora3 no tool (the last I knew) is
> provided for expanding an EXT3 partition. The excellent e2fsadm
> utility (which I use regularly for our RH9 systems) was dropped in
> favor of Watch This Space! [Shudder] It doesn't give me a warm fuzzy
> thinking what might happen with FC4 and then RHEL5.

Yes, that was a problem before RH got into the 'enterprise' line of 
products, but it definitely isn't the case for the enterprise line.


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