ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup: A Red Hat Retrospective
Oct 27, 2003, 11:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Michael Hall)
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"You've probably read a lot about Red Hat's latest Linux release
already, so we're not going to go down the laundry list of features
for you here. It's enough to say that with support for 32-way
servers, address space limitations that have soared to 256GB, and
support for big iron across several platforms, the company's taken
another step forward in what seems to be an endless Linux process:
arriving.
"What's the most interesting about Red Hat's news this week is
how with the release of its Enterprise Linux 3 product--and recent
changes in approach--Red Hat is looking like a 21st century Linux
company more than it ever has.
"We remember our first Red Hat experience with some fondness. It
involved Red Hat 4.2 (released in May 1997), and after some time
spent slaving away in older, creakier distributions, much about the
way Red Hat went about its business seemed like a revelation. It
was clearly a company bent on taming Linux. It's a comment on the
state of the Linux world at that point that Red Hat was regularly
decried as having some sort of corrupting influence thanks to the
way it made installing software, for instance, easier than seemed
decent to Unix graybeards and assorted other neo-Calvinists..."
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