FC3 Vs Redhat ES3.0
John writes: It isn't (it isn't part of the OS). I think you want gpart...
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:19:17 -0800, teachtiro
Fedora Core 3 is way ahead of ES3. Fedora is the development platform and always has the latest of everything. Enterprise is optimized for stability, it uses well tested but trailing edge components. It's stability that makes ESx attractive to corporate customers. Redhat supports each release for five years which is important because big companies need to standardize on a minimum number of platforms. Also the suppliers of commercial software need to qualify their products on a specific platforms because it minimizes their support costs. Long support cycles aren't important to end users because they are using few if any closed source applications. If you want something that's a little more stable then Fedora but still reasonable cutting edge then go with Mandrake which does new releases a couple of times a year but then just does bug fixes on each release.
I have a rather old (non-portable) computer with a 900MHz AMD Duron processor. I want to optimize my system as much as possible for that processor, but am a bit puzzled...
If you want to use a free version of Redhat Enterprise then there are a couple of places on the web where you can get clones. The clones are built from Redhat's SRPMs with Redhat's logos all stripped off. These clones are all perfectly legal because Redhat ES is covered by the GPL. The only thing that Redhat owns are it's trademarks which is why they have to be stripped off of the clones. Here are a couple of clone sources
gcc: which processoroptimization to use for AMD Duron
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