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

[Lance Simmons]

* Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [031104 09:52]:
> 
> For some strange an unknown reason, RH I guess never shipped a kernel
> with  64G support... at least not with RHAS 2.1.

Why the emphasis on "shipping a kernel"?  Most distributions "ship" a
default kernel, but the source is easy enough to obtain, and patch if
need be, so what does it matter wheather RH or whoever never "shipped" a
kernel that supported one thing or another?  Are there corporate
customers who (1) have the kind of expensive hardware we're talking
about, and (2) never compile their own kernels?

It's probably pretty clear I've never used software in a corporate
setting.

-- 
Lance Simmons