Re: Hardware upgraded but performance still ain't good

> > First off - very few third party tools support debian. Debian is
> a
> > sure fire way to have an unsupported system. Use RedHat or SuSe
> > (flame me all you want, it doesn't make it less true).
>
> *cough* BS *cough*
>
> Linux is Linux. It doesn't matter what trademark you put on top of
> it.
> As long as they are running a current version of Linux (e.g; kernel
> 2.6) they should be fine.

Unfortunatly, that' not my experience either.
Both RedHat and SuSE heavily modify the kernel. So anything that needs
anything near kernel space (two examples: the HP management/monitoring
tools and the EMC/Legato Networker backup software) simply does not work
on Linux (linux being the kernel from kernel.org). They only work on
RedHat/SuSE. To the point of not compiling/starting/working, not just
the support part.

(One could argue that they shouldn't claim linux support then, but
specifically RH/SuSE, but I don't expect them to do that..)

BTW, it used to work much better with 2.4, but since there is no real
"stable series" kernel in 2.6, it's just a lost cause there it seems.

//Magnus