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
>
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