RHEL4?

So Redhat went from providing 'experimental' firewire support in RHEL3
and promising full firewire support in RHEL4 to shipping an RHEL4 that
they say has no firewire support what-so-ever and should not be used
for firewire. This on a 2.6 kernel, where I thought you actually had
to work harder to REMOVE firewire support than you do to INCLUDE it.

Does anyone know whether this is the truth, or whether this is another
case of 'we want to get RHEL4 out the door faster so we won't bother
testing anything that less than half of our users will be using'?

They apparently did remove all support for external USB hard drives, so
I guess they expect people who want external storage to splurge on SCSI
termination hell, or perhaps spend ten times as much as their server is
worth on FC kit.

This is great; it's looking more and more like we're going to end up
having to use and support three separate distros in-house: RHEL for our
oracle boxes, something ELSE with a good support structure for our
actual file servers that need external removable storage, and then
something yet ELSE for the two desktop users who can update themselves
and don't need subscriptions. Mac OS X is looking more inviting by the
second.

--Adam Lang

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