Hi all, It's been awhile since I last wrote to the list. Anyway, let's get down to it...
I work at a securities firm (securities as in stock market). Most, if not all, of our backoffice systems run on Linux (some M$, Solaris and HP-UX). The majority of the Linux installs are RH 7.x whilst the remaining are Debian :-). As most of the machines installed are enterprise-class boxes i.e. 4 Xeon CPUS, 4GB RAM, >72GB HDD, Gigabit NICs, etc., the default kernels shipped in Potato/Woody may not be built to meet the needs of these machines. E.g. The default kernels shipped were not compiled to map RAM above 1GB....as I recently discovered when I ran top and free on one machine with 4 Xeons, 4.5GB RAM and 36.4GB mirrored hardisks. I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB. Are there plans to include kernels compiled/built for the enterprise in mind...this would surely help in making Debian the choice of distribution when it comes to the enterprise...maybe calling it kernel-image-2.4.18-868-smp-enterprise or something... Thoughts anyone? -- Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
