On 20/07/10 00:18, Jefferson Ogata wrote: > On 2010-07-19 23:10, Robin Bowes wrote: >> I would imagine Dell support will be limited to "RHEL runs on this >> hardware". If you have any issues with kernel oops or other >> hardware-related crashing then Dell may be interested in fixing it. > > Not if it's a licensing issue where Dell is the OEM that sold the Red > Hat license.
That possibility come to my mind just after I pressed send! > In that case, Red Hat will run you (and Dell tech support) > around in circles of ever-increasing size until you finally conclude > that the only viable option is CentOS. Indeed. > My only support tickets with Red Hat in the past two years have been > related to licensing. Kinda tells you something.... I've ended up fixing most of the support tickets I've raised recently, and having the changes merged into either Fedora or RHEL! They should be paying me! ;) R. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
