Based on rebuilt
RedHat Enterprise AS 3 SRPMS including Update 1
Features of Fermi
Linux LTS 3.0.1
Fermi release
notes at
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts301/i386/Fermi.releasenote.latest
RedHat release
notes at
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts301/i386/Fermi.documentation/
kernel 2.4.21
with features from 2.4.22 and 2.6
hugemem kernel
with 4GB process space vs 3GB
RedHat decided
that they could not support all device drivers in the kernel so
the ones they do NOT support are provided in kernels with
unsupported in the name. See the RedHat release notes for more
info on their use.
EA (Extended
Attributes) and ACL( Acess Control Lists) functionality is now
supported for ext3 filesystems and for exported NFS filesystems
NFS over TCP
kernel level
ipsec
Better smp
support
NPTL (native
posix thread library) (same as on 9.0.1)
gcc 3.2.3
perl 5.8
glibc 2.3.2
lvm support (same
as on 9.0.1)
utf-8 (same as on
9.0.1)
pxe booting is
supported (same as on 9.0.1)
fontconfig now
supported (same as on 9.0.1)
NO upgrades from
RedHat Linux or Fermi Linux via the installer
RedHat took out
support of Upgrades from RedHat Linux to Enterprise. So it is
suggest that one backup and install new. YUM is available from
Fermi Linux 9.0.1. Note that workgroup maintainers have to add
support for workgroups to work with YUM upgrades to LTS 3.0.1.