[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 9.0 End of Life 04/30/2004

[Chris Cox]

Lance Simmons wrote:
> * Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [031103 23:25]:
> 
>>Apart from NPTL, the biggest RH thing in 3.0 is support for more than
>>4GB of memory... something the home version of SUSE has been doing for
>>many years now.
> 
> 
> Excuse my ignorance of the corporate world, but isn't the obvious way to
> handle this just to recompile the kernel with more memory capacity?  Or
> does RH's "support" here mean something more substantial than a
> recompiled kernel?
> 

For some strange an unknown reason, RH I guess never shipped a kernel
with  64G support... at least not with RHAS 2.1.