On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:47:34 AM Peter Ross wrote:
From the policy view, it somehow defeats the purpose of choosing an Enterprise Linux (with well-tested software in their own "kernel/userland universe") and then throwing out crucial parts of it.
In my bitter experience RHEL has a nasty habit of breaking things on their "minor" point releases. I've seen rsync over ssh broken (no idea how they missed that in testing), at least 5 different Mellanox Infiniband & 10gigE kernel bugs introduced (we had to use RHEL 6.2 kernels on one of our systems until RHEL 6.6 finaly cleared things up and the RHEL5 bug that delivered incoming packets to the wrong interface took about a year to fix by which stage we'd reinstalled with RHEL6) and I suspect there are a few others I've forgotten... The best thing I can say about RHEL is that at least it's not SLES. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC