Re: Have Enterprise via SRPM for free?

[-{ Rene Brehmer }- <metalbunny metalbunny net>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003 00:42:12 -0500 (CDT), fluke gibson mw luc edu wrote
something about "Re: Have Enterprise via SRPM for free?" what the universal
translator turned into:

> > > AS 2.1 is based on Redhat 7.2.  There are a couple of added packages. 
> > > (Cluster stuff, if I remember correctly.)  The kernel has some additional 
> > > patches for large loads and memory.  Not much else that I remember.
> > 
> > Ya sure? ... the AS 2.1 I've been goofing around with at work the past 2
> > days has several RPMs that are marked RH7.1 ...
> > 
> > Besides the cluster stuff and a slightly different installer, I can't really
> > see the big difference from my RH 8 ...
> 
> I am sure.  There are 731 source RPMs in RH 2.1 AS of which 564 of those 
> source packages have the same *exact* name as source packages in RH 7.2.

Okay ... I didn't _count_ the packages ... we just put everything from both
discs on the system ... it's a brand new server and we're trying to convince
a customer that we can supply a AS 2.1 certifiable machine much cheaper than
HP ... so I've focused more on getting the darn thing to work properly with
the requested hardware (for some reason, there's a compat glitch between
Linux and U320 RAID controllers...took us nearly 20 hours work to find a
driver that would work without causing errors)...

> The fact that RH8 is built using gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.2.93 makes a big 
> difference.  If you use RH8 as the starting point for building an AS-like 
> system then it may not provide the same level of binary compatiblity.
>
> But, again, the question of how to get AS for free without support misses 
> the point that software isn't really what the charge is for, the cost is 
> for providing the level of support that "Enterprise" has been demanding.  
> If you need to ask for how to get it without support then you really don't 
> need it.  Instead, the question should be:  how do I make it easier to 
> upgrade all my computers at least once a year?  There is some good answers 
> to this question but most people don't even seem willing to explore it.

I'm not one of those interested in getting a "free" AS ... or ES, or any of
those ... firstly their only interesting for big corps, secondly the things
they support specifically, like the cluster stuff ... requires more hardware
and gives higher performance than I ever expect to need in my miniature
network ...

Rene
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