Which OS's

[Tom Brown]

>> There may be 'pressure' on me to migrate away from RH based OS's in the 
>> future so RHEL, CentOS and FCx etc.
> 
> Would you care to elaborate as to why?  Especially if cost isn't a
> factor (as you're moving from zero-fee distros too).
> 
>> Can i ask which OS's work well on PE boxes and still retain full
>> OMSA capabilities?

I can honestly say that at this time i do not know - RH like OS's have 
allways been good to me(us) so i don't understand either.

>> Also do Dell 'support' any other OS's than RHEL ?
> 
> Dell officially supports RHEL 3 (i386 and x86_64 on all <4Socket
> systems, i386 only on 4Socket systems) and 4 (i386 and x86_64), and
> Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10 (x86_64 only).  OMSA is
> available for these.  All others are on a best-effort basis, this
> mailing list being your best method for asking questions.
> 
> Dell's engineers spend a lot of time making the above supported OSs
> work on our systems, and our add-on software work on those same
> distros.  CentOS benefits directly from this work of course, as do the
> myriad distributions that derive from one of the above.  And we push
> hard for all our drivers to be included in kernel.org ASAP.  That
> said, we only backport drivers from current kernel.org to the distros
> listed above; if you want to run another distro version that isn't
> based on a recent kernel.org kernel, you'll need to do the backport
> work yourself in some cases.

thanks - that is useful information in my 'argument'