Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 15, 2005 09:07 PM
Unfortunately the reviewer couldn't get past his obvious apathy for RHEL.
I work for a large Telco... and in this space RHEL is god... when rolling DB2 or Oracle... you don't touch anything else in EL. A review on the changes involved at 3rd party drivers would have been interesting...
Realistically... I've found this review at <A HREF="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5745/" title="linuxplanet.com">LinuxPlanet</a linuxplanet.com> a far better review.... it covers more of what's in it, and what to expect. This review on NewsForge seems rushed and pre-judged. Also the whole RAID card<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... please... in Enterprise world... you throw 'em out and get cards that *ARE* supported... it's definately not a show stopper... you failed to mention what *DID* work...
Sure SuSE is reasonable in the EL space... but it still has to 'prove' itself (against that of RedHat), and Mandrake is pretty much a joke in this space.
For me... new compiler (GCC 3.4), *REAL* Kernel 2.6, SELinux, and SATA, MySQL 4.1, Postgres 7.4 make it a reasonable upgrade. I would have liked an option for PHP5..<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.but I can live without it... I'll compile it up myself.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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Poor review.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 15, 2005 09:07 PMI work for a large Telco... and in this space RHEL is god... when rolling DB2 or Oracle... you don't touch anything else in EL.
A review on the changes involved at 3rd party drivers would have been interesting...
Realistically... I've found this review at <A HREF="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5745/" title="linuxplanet.com">LinuxPlanet</a linuxplanet.com> a far better review.... it covers more of what's in it, and what to expect. This review on NewsForge seems rushed and pre-judged.
Also the whole RAID card<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... please... in Enterprise world... you throw 'em out and get cards that *ARE* supported... it's definately not a show stopper... you failed to mention what *DID* work...
Sure SuSE is reasonable in the EL space... but it still has to 'prove' itself (against that of RedHat), and Mandrake is pretty much a joke in this space.
For me... new compiler (GCC 3.4), *REAL* Kernel 2.6, SELinux, and SATA, MySQL 4.1, Postgres 7.4 make it a reasonable upgrade.
I would have liked an option for PHP5..<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.but I can live without it... I'll compile it up myself.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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