Re: RHEL4
- From: Dan Espen <daneNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:36:44 -0400
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:09:42 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:41:50 +0100, Simon Dean wrote:
Damn it. damn it and everything it stands for. I understand that it
doesn't use "bleeding edge" technology because it's still fresh, but I
mean, the printing interface, aka, CUPS, is like a few years old at
least.
Cya
Simon
RHEL starts life slightly obsolete and then stays frozen in time for
ever,
We have a RH4 subscription on one of our work machines.
I get so many notices of updates from RH that I had to put the specific
subject line in my SPAM filter.
Instead of reading the emails, I just go onto the machine every few
weeks and apply all the updates. They may not be applying the latest and
greatest but I get a lot of updates.
Just curious because I've only used the clones and not the the official
product, do they give you an option to use later kernels or some other
mechanism to get new drivers. With SL 4.4 there were security patches but
no real improvements or even fixes for things that are really broken. For
example when I boot SL 4.4 on my laptop Kudzu always wants to configure
new hardware. What's worse if you touch the keyboard while it's in that
phase the mouse won't work after the machine is up. This is a problem
that existed in FC3 but has been fixed since FC4. Also the 2.6.9 kernel
lacked working drivers for the Ethernet controllers, I fixed that by
building a 2.6.18.6 kernel for the box. However I can't imagine that
anyone who is a real RHEL user would want to do that because it defeats
the purpose of having a proven platform. Does Redhat have a mechanism for
deal with these kinds of problems?
You can install anything on it, but like you, I want to keep this machine
"standard".
I haven't reported any problems but we do pay for support.
We only use the machine for development, not a desktop and everything
works as it should. They've supplied a lot of kernel updates since
we've had it.
We're running 2.6.9-22 and it looks like there's a -42 pending.
Since we don't reboot very often, we get behind in kernel versions.
I'm not sure what they are putting in these kernel updates, I
assume it's selective fixes from the newer kernels.
I think if I reported a problem, they'd roll the fix into
one of their kernel updates.
.
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