On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:01, Bill McCarty <bmccarty(a)pt-net.net> wrote:
Actually, in the case of RHEL 3, I was hoping to deploy, more than
to
learn. I obviously understand that the RHEL 3 packages that were once
available are unsupported beta (alpha?) software. But, that's good enough
for some of my purposes <g>.
The problem with RHEL 3 is that some changes to significant parts of it are
needed, coreutils, PAM, sysvinit, and a few others. The advantage for using
RHEL 3 in production is that it's not changing much, so as long as those few
packages aren't updated you don't need to re-compile anything. If those
packages are updated then someone will have to recompile the SE Linux
versions.
Also there are some programs such as userhelper which have had SE Linux
support added for which you probably wouldn't want to do a RHEL 3 port. This
means that your RHEL 3 machine will lack some of the SE Linux functionality
that Fedora has (you will need RHEL 4 for full functionality).
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