[MythDora] MythDora, RHEL5/CentOS, and atrpms

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:39:13AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007 03:09:06 am gchris wrote:
> > Derek Burt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 02:33 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >> Well, Ubuntu and Fedora are twenty times more apart than Fedora and
> > >> RHEL. RHEL is a downstream of Fedora, e.g. if you like it's a snapshot
> > >> of some Fedora release (in a very simplified view, but in this context
> > >> this view is adequate).
> > >>
> > >> It's also easier to support a stable platform than to have to deal
> > >> with new kernels missing this module and breaking that module. Not
> > >> that RHEL is really API/ABI stable (especially in wifi components),
> > >> but it sure is more managable.
> > >
> > > It is a great deal more manageable, and the thing is that it's not that
> > > far behind Fedora.  From Wikipedia:
> > >
> > > RHL 9 → RHEL 3 (Taroon), 22 October 2003
> > > FC 3 → RHEL 4 (Nahant), 15 February 2005
> > > FC 6 → RHEL 5 (Tikanga), 14 March 2007
> > >
> > > That's only once every couple of years.  I totally totally agree with
> > > not wanting a fork because "user support for multiple forks would be
> > > backbreaking and a free distro just couldn't carry that kind of load."
> > > With that said, it seems that a move to CentOS would lessen the
> > > workload, wouldn't it?
> >
> > Probably not, because it wouldn't handle the demands of new hardware as
> > well.
> 
> Yes and no. We do usually wind up backporting support for most of both Intel 
> and AMD's latest and greatest chipsets, processors, etc., to RHEL.

In the whole argument I forgot to add that we have an insider in the
RHEL department that can secretly flag any unsupported device mythdora
enterprise will hit at as client critical (he will probably only
ask for a mythdora enterprise ia64 xen version in return ;)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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