[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat Offerings

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:54:35PM -0500, Dave Augustus wrote:
> What advantages do the new versions of Redhat offer?
> 
Support.  That is basically it, support.  And not just support from Red
Hat, but also support from 3rd party ISVs including Veritas, Oracle, IBM,
etc.
> 
> As far as I can tell, you are really paying for support and a REDHAT
> kernel(a really custom one at that- hmmm can you say proprietary?)
> 
It depends on your definition of proprietary. As things got closer to 2.6,
features which were in the 2.6 kernel and were fairly well tested, usually
developed in part by Red Hat are back ported to the RHEL kernel.  These
include NPTL, the 0(1) scheduler, execshield (I think), Asynch I/O, 4G/4G
memory patch, and a few more.   All of these things have been submitted
upstream, and most are in the 2.6 mainline kernel.

Justin