 | | | bad blocks | bad blocks 2004-01-13 - By Jay Daniels
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Dmitry O Moskaletz said:
> Thanks all for your time.
> I had no installation problems whith RHL4.2, 5.x, 6.2, 7.x, only RHL9.
> Bugzilla now is my helper ):.
> Many thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Moskaletz Dmitry.
>
>
I have a dual xeon server and the only OS that worked out of the box was
RedHat 9.0 (aka shrike)! XP even bombed out detecting hardware, it seems
to be the raid controller. The Microsoft site says install a patch, but I
can't install anything and don't know much about XP anyway - and for good
reason.
Slackware was slower than previous versions
SaX bug prevented SaX from running in SUSE pro(even from commandline)
Free Solaris 9 only has license and binary for one processor:(
Debian (woody) failed to dectect my raid controller and built in eth.
RedHat 9.0 works, but I have other issue with RedHat the company...
On my system OS choices are slim. I thought about purchasing a licensed
version of Solaris 9 with dual cpu support, but I'm not sure if it will
work, cost $295!
I prefer Debian, but in this case, RedHat 9.0 worked out of the box on
this server.
Sometimes you just have to use what works unless you want to spend days
patching and searching for fixes, including the MS Windows OS.
I have not tested Debian (Sarge) yet.
In early versions of redhat with kernel 2.2 and ipchains, it was simple to
create a firewall - just edit the firewall script (single file), uncomment
what you want to access from which network device. I find iptables very
confusing and understand why so-called secure Linux distributions still
use kernel 2.2 and ipchains. If it works why change.
The problem: bugs and security problems force users to update as well as
hardware issues that require a newer kernel and patches. When it comes to
Linux distributions or any OS for that matter, I would like to see more
stable releases and less updates/errata.
RedHat 4.2 was a killer distro given the state of GNU software at the
time, but from Hurricain to Shrike, Redhat seems to have released very
buggy software. I expect more from a commercial distribution like RedHat.
I was surprised that Shrike did not use the rieserfs, everyone seems to
agree that rieserfs is better on large partitions. Even slackware had
this option during setup.
As far as upgrades or concerned, I never expected to be able to update
from, say Redhat 6.2/7.x to 9.0. Many users have tried this and failed.
With the Glib updates and software built on newer libraries, anyone should
understand this.
With Fedora, it seems RedHat is dumping all these problems on the Linux
community. Question: if you are making money and you already have the
market on Linux Distros, why change everything?
I just think the current changes at RedHat are bad for RedHat and the
Linux community. We don't need a more bugger distro.
In my opinion, instead of purchasing RedHat's current retail products or
switching to Fedora, many users will probably switch distros or purchase
Solaris.
Checking bad blocks is not the only thing Shrike is missing but it is one
of RedHat's best distros.
jay
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