Based on rebuilt
RedHat Enterprise AS 3 SRPMS's
RedHat AS is a
superset of WS and the same rpm set as ES
RedHat errata
support is expected for 3-5 years
New Enterprise
releases from RedHat are on the 12-18 month time frame
RedHat supports 7
architectures including x86, Itanium, AMD64
Feattures of Fermi
Linux LTS 3.0.1
kernel 2.4.21
with features from 2.4.22 and 2.6
hugemem kernel
with 4GB process space vs 3GB
ipv6 supported
kernel*unsupported
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. We are researching the
use of YUM for POSSIBLE upgrade support in the future.
RedHat moved some
functionality to RedHat Applications
RedHat Cluster
Suite
Not available
at this time
RedHat Developer
Suite
Eclipse is
available now.