Re: Closest to Debian

[Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:18:47PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote:
[snip]
> > The Red Hat version only supports kernel 2.4.2, expect it to
> > fail on 2.4.17+ because there have been significant changes.
> > Also expect it to work on the Red Hat 2.4.2 kernel but not a
> > standard 2.4.2 kernel because Red Hat apply significant
> > patches to their kernels.
> 
> Sigh. Do we know exactly what kernel patches/modifications
> Redhat makes to their default kernels?

If you want to see what patches they apply to their kernels,
download their kernel source rpm and have a look.

[snip]
> Sigh... are we going to become like the Mac... where the rest
> of the world supports OTHER software that we don't use? That
> is... it seems like more and more hardware/software producers
> are making stuff FOR Redhat, and not supporting anything else
> except that. What happens to the rest of us? If we don't also
> use Redhat we either have compatibility problems, or have to
> hack away at it to get it to work (and even if it DOES work,
> it may be flaky).
[snip]

If you're worried about that (or even if you're not) then
support vendors that have open source drivers.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>