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

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NPTL and the 0(1) scheduler are included in RHEL 3, and the support for more memory is there.  Yes, on the surface it is just a kernel flag in your .config, but some patches were backported to allow for more efficient use of that memory.  Yes, Suse does the same thing.   In the enterprise world, what you tend to end up with, is the newest product is technically superior (at least between Red Hat and Suse).  Before RHEL 3, Suse Enterprise Server was a technically superior product.  Now, I would say Red Hat has the edge... at least until the Suse refresh.  This stems from the 2.5.x backports to the vendors shipping kernel.  Typically nothing more than drivers or bug fixes will be added once the product is shipping. The next rev will add new backports/features.

Just my $.02

Justin
> * 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?
> 
> -- 
> Lance Simmons
> 
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