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

["Jonathan Hall" <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

1) You make some gross, undocumented generalizations. That is always bad
(sic).

2) Red Hat releases all of their code under open source licenses (unless
they've changed their underlying business philosophy recently), so any
changes RH makes, any other distro can use as well.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Cavgalar, Alexandros (Alex)" <cavgalar@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:09 AM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Monta Vista vs. RedHat


> 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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