Re: [MLUG] RedHat Enterprise vs. Professional

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> A lot of times it's the "support" or "certification".  I.E. Oracle is
> probably certified on RedHat enterprise edition and on HP hardware.
> Oracle would work fine on other systems, but it's certified to run
> there, so you know it will and can get Oracle support.
>
> Also, a Enterprise edition will often have some extra packages or kernel
> config options, and sometimes bigmem support or they'll test the kernel
> a lot more heavily.


Thanks for the clues!

One of our people read somewhere that all of the Red Hat kernels are the
*same*!  That doesn't seem right.  Does anyone know?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (cheaper) supports > 4 MB RAM while RedHat
Enterprise Linux ES (more expensive) does not support > 4 MB RAM...

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/features/

Isn't that odd?  Can anyone think of a reason for that?

Mike
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