Re: Changing Hostname for RH 9.0 Enterprise?

From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:16:07 -0500

W. Watson wrote:

> I'm something of an innocent bystander here. I wouldn't necessarily be
> using Linux if it weren't for the fact that the application I'm running,
> on a rt kernel with a 24/7 meteor camera attached, requires it. My
> interest in Linux is keeping the application running. What is RHEL3? I
> guess the Linux 'product' is distributed by the originators, and has its
> own release (version?) scheme?
>
This thread is becomming a bit too long.

At this point it seems to be merely a question about what someone would
mean by the Subject line: "Changing Hostname for RH 9.0 Enterprise?" since
there is no such thing as 9.0 Enterprise. There _was_ a Red Hat product
known as _Red Hat Linux 9_ that has been discontinued for a while now (a
year or so?); it went by the name "Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)."

Red Hat no longer maintain Red Hat Linux distributions at all. That is now
handled by the Fedora distributions that are identified by Fedora Core 2
(and similar) identifiers.

Red Hat do provide distributions, known as _Red Hat Enterprise Linux_ and
version 3 is current. It is identified by the name "Red Hat Enterprise
Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)", at least the up to date version I
have. They also have similar distributions named AS and WS.

So I know nothing about your application. If it runs on Red Hat Linux 9,
then fine. But it RHL9 is obsolete and unsupported. I run it on one of my
machines, too, because Fedora Core 2 did not work well for me.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fairly costly and involves an annual fee for
support. Unlike the Red Hat Linux and the Fedora distributions that tried
to be state-of-the-art, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux tries for stability
and reliability. They do not distribute new versions of anything, but they
do fix the bugs and security problems as fast as they can, and these are
automatically distributed over Red Hat Network using the _up2date_ program. 

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