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

[Chris Cox]

Iostream at comcast.net wrote:
> 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.

Of course, SUSE does not have NPTL though.

> 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.

The whole reason why SUSE 8.3 got renamed SUSE 9.0 ... so there
could be a SLES 9.  Probably won't see SLES 9 until SUSE 9.1...
SUSE 9.0 is just too much like 8.2... but with some fairly
significant bugs (which hopefully will get patched out... though
usually SUSE just fixes security things... the problems are
apparently with the new KDE).

> 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