topic Re: Red HAt Enterprise in Operating System - Linux

Red HAt Enterprise

Jeff_179 — Tue, 27 May 2003 15:48:34 GMT

What's the difference between Linux Red Hat and the Enterprise Edition ??? Who supports it? There doesn't seem to be much technical info on the Red Hat's web page

Re: Red HAt Enterprise

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 27 May 2003 15:57:07 GMT

Red Hat Enterprise has clustering built into it. It also includes a sepcial kernel thats tuned for reliablity and large systems.

Red Hat charges a fee for the whole package.

I believe that the since everything in Linux is supposed to be open source, you should be able to get the kernel source and documentation for implementing clustering.

Because Red Hat wants to make money off this, they don't make it easy to put the pieces together.

In theory, you should be able to take Stock Red Hat 7.x, 8.x and 9.x, make the kernel modifications, and then figure out how to implement clustering, if yo uneed it.

I will say that I've not done clustering though some day I plan to. I'm running a business(enterprise?) hosting websites on Red Hat 7.3 right now.

SEP

Re: Red HAt Enterprise

Jeff_179 — Tue, 27 May 2003 16:18:54 GMT

Thanks Steven. That would explain why Red Hat is pushing this package :-) I appreciate your feedback.

Jeff

Re: Red HAt Enterprise

Jeff_179 — Tue, 27 May 2003 16:19:01 GMT

Thanks Steven. That would explain why Red Hat is pushing this package :-) I appreciate your feedback.

Jeff

Re: Red HAt Enterprise

John Meissner — Tue, 27 May 2003 16:42:07 GMT

Jeff - there are other items that distinguish RH's enterprise from their general release.

One thing is that the general release (Red Hat 9) is constantly getting updates and kernel changes and a new version will be out every 6 months. With Enterprise RH is having a longer release life -i.e. longer time between releases... 18 months.

Another reason is that once RH gets a stable kernel for their Enterprise they don't change it until the next Enterprise release. With the general release They update the kernel everytime they come up with an update.

These two combined are touted to make RH Enterprise more stable and reliable. This was straight from my Red Hat rep I've been dealing with.

Re: Red HAt Enterprise

Jeff_179 — Tue, 27 May 2003 17:16:54 GMT

Thanks for the input John. I appreciate it!!!

Jeff

Re: Red HAt Enterprise

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:49:28 GMT

RH Enterprise can be downloaded for under $350, less if you don't long term need support.

I still don't get how they charge, but thats technically for support. One would think you should be able to download it without support for 18 months.

I've been using Red Hat 7.3 to run an online business with great results. I generally go to a release when its stable, though I did have to do the 7.2 to 7.3 step last upgrade cycle. Its rock solid and I love it.

SEP

Re: Red HAt Enterprise

Bill Douglass — Thu, 29 May 2003 00:28:55 GMT

A few other points:

RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) is guaranteed to be supported for 3 years after release. The standard Linux releases are only being supported for 1 year. After that, Red Hat claims that they will no longer provide errate, bug fixes etc. for it.

RHEL is the version that Red Hat is getting certified with various 3rd-party vendors (see

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/applist.html
for a list)