Thursday September 14, 2006
Thursday September 14, 2006 If you're a current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 user, there are some changes coming your way that you may or may not know about. Things here have been unusually hectic so in all likelihood this is old news but I thought I'd cover it anyway.
RHEL3 goes into maintenance mode on November 1st of this year. That means that customers will only get Security errata and select mission critical bug fixes from that date forward. That's a pain for a couple of reasons:
1. Red Hat doesn't guarantee compatibility between releases (unlike Solaris).
And
2. RHEL 4 hasn't been widely adopted and as a result only offers support for 474 hardware platforms and 997 apps (according to redhat.com). Solaris 10 on the other hand currently supports over *700* x64/x86 systems and has over *1560* currently shipping x64/x86 apps. One thing to note is that Red Hat also seems to double count systems on their hardware lists. I also think their number includes various POWER platforms etc which I don't really count as I've yet to meet a customer who has one.
We won't mention the multi-award winning functionality today.
You also don't have to take my word for it. Take a look at what a DTrace Commando I know has to say about the whole thing.
For those of you who don't have the stomach for that *8 page* piece, slide on over to the Replace Red Hat pages on sun.com. There's some info, documentation and tools there that may interest you. We'll update this site regularly so watch out for more info, offers, tools, and docs etc over the coming weeks.
We also announced today that the upcoming Solaris 10 11/06 is in evaluation at EAL4+ with three protection profiles (LSPP, RBACPP and CAPP), that will qualify it as the most secure OS on the planet. What's currently the most secure OS on the planet? Well, actually, that would be Solaris too.
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