Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 [LWN.net]

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 27, 2008 9:08 UTC (Wed) by bangert (subscriber, #28342)
In reply to: Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 by BackSeat
Parent article: Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

and the number of architectures supported by the product. gentoo has eight 
security supported architectures (IIRC).

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Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 27, 2008 16:18 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

Exactly.  Now you know WHY Red Hat reduced the number of packages and has a smaller number of
arches... to make their product more supportable... easier to support... however you want to
put it.

On the other hand, the project they sponsor (Fedora) appears to be growing towards Debian size
with regards to package number... but it has a ways to go.

Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Feb 29, 2008 23:24 UTC (Fri) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link]

While it's true that Gentoo's 8 supported architectures is a lot, the last time I looked, RHEL
supported 5, so it's not as if they only have a single architecture to worry about...