[aclug-L] Re: Monta Vista vs. RedHat

["Cavgalar, Alexandros (Alex)" <cavgalar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In some cases yes but in some cases no. I found out that Red Hat spent
tremendous amount of  money to support Telecom specific modules. Anyone can
write a code and compile it into the kernel, but when a company like Red Hat
makes sure that specific modulus are "bug free" and in compliance to
Telcordia standards such as G.823. G.259, G.768, network hardware design
architects like us wonder how much of the actual module is fully tested by
others.

No offense to Computer Science majors but when they write a code, all they
care is whether it compiles or not. The hardware impact is never an issue
for them but Engineers spend most of the time on hardware impact and
latency, overall system performance and software impact to system
performance.

I am not sure if Monta Vista has dedicated people like Red Hat to do such
compliance.

Regards,

Alex.


-----Original Message-----
From: Arnold Cavazos Jr. [mailto:abcjr@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:50 AM
To: discussion@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Monta Vista vs. RedHat

This might just be my naivety in Linux, but don't all Linux distro's
use a common kernel amongst themselves?  Obviously the startup
procedures (BSD style or SYS5 style), package management, and system
management utilities are different, but I thought that the kernel was
unified structure.  For instance, could I move a kernel and it's
loadable modules from one distro to another without harm?

--
Arnold Cavazos, Jr.             abcjr@xxxxxxxxx


On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:15:24AM -0500, Cavgalar, Alexandros (Alex) wrote:
> Has anyone used Monta Vista? I have been hearing that it is more stable
than
> Red Hat.  I am very interested to know a comparison of the two especially
in
> networking and telecom applications.
> Any comments?
> Thanks,
> Alex.
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