On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Derwyn Dpenha derwynd@gmail.com wrote:
Actually if you look at banking/ finance sector and any company that is going in for certification one of the criteria states that you need to have a licence OS.
What is a licensed OS? Pretty Slackware/Ubuntu/Debian all are licensed ( GPL License ).
And no redhat with it's redhat 6 is a 2.6.32 kernel which has module
support for hw. I'm sure if you can get a latest stable kernel and/or compile the modules yourself you should be good to go.
Point of using Red Hat is to save efforts on building (and maintaining) OS
images for various host families. An enterprise would typically have blades + SAN hardware from multiple vendors. If you want to compile kernel and packages yourself, then LFS (Linux From Scratch) is not that bad a choice :) .
-Shamit