The two enterprise distributions are prohibitively expensive unless I know they are going to work for sure. I just paid $600US for SuSE ES7 yesterday and I'm hoping that it works. The problem with RH72 is the 2.4.9-31 kernel. It is disfunctional with our hardware (IBM x235) configuration.
What I would like to really see is one blackbox clean version of Debian supported with a clean kernel from kernel.org. I really don't like using commercial kernels (especially Redhat and SuSE to a lesser extent, also) because of contamination issues. The RH AS is a non-starter because of the immaturity of the product. It's just way too primitive (perhaps it has too many training wheels) for us. Stef Coene wrote: > On Thursday 05 June 2003 19:06, Mitch Sako wrote: > > The current 5.1.6.5 TSM server for Linux is supported on the following > > platforms: > > > > Red Hat 7.2 on ia32 architecture > > Kernel levels: 2.4.9-31 (for uniprocessor systems) > > 2.4.9-31smp (for multiprocessors systems) > > > > Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 on ia32 architecture > > Kernel levels: 2.4.9-e.8 (for uniprocessor systems) > > 2.4.9-e.8enterprise (for multiprocessor systems) > > > > SuSE Enterprise Server 7 on ia32 architecture > > Kernel levels - 2.4.18-4GB release 231 (for uniprocessor systems) > > 2.4.18-64GB-SMP release 231 (for multiprocessors systems) > > > > Anyone know when these choices are going to be updated, especially the > > first one? RH72 using 2.4.9-31 is driving me crazy trying to get it to run > > on modern hardware correctly (i.e. IBM X-series x335, x235, x345) on some > > hardware I have. AS2.1 does not work correctly and has too many issues and > > I can't seem to find a coherent source for SuSE ES7 (reasonable cost, > > considering it's an experiment and I may have to throw it away, too). > > > > Regarding the first choice, I really don't mind using RH72 but I do mind > > using that broken kernel. It's just causing too many headaches with > > reliability. The current RH72 errata installs a 2.4.20 version of Redhat's > > and I think that would be a better choice. > The only thing that you have to take care of, is the linux kernel. TSM uses > some binary only modules and they only load in the supported kernels. I > loaded the binary succesfully on my debian box after I download the SUSE > kernel source and compiled my kernel with it. I choosed the SUSE kernel > because it's the most recent one. > > Stef > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" > http://www.docum.org/ > #lartc @ irc.oftc.net
