[Novalug] Tech Sessions @ Red Hat Tysons

[greg pryzby]

Disclaimer: I use to peddle suse

I would like to focus on the similarities and highlight differences
but not get sucked into a speed/feed discussion.



On 1/7/08, Ken Kauffman <kkauffman at headfog.com> wrote:
> Just some thoughts ...
>
> I would like to see something that RedHat has identified as a hot area for
> them -- unless virtualization is one of RedHat's objectives as well.  Maybe
> identifying and clarifying how RedHat is a better value than say perhaps a
> SuSE offering.  Those differences and tools would be interesting to me as
> well.
>
> For instance,  tuning a RedHat system for different targets is of interest
> to me.  Plus, explaining the concepts of each tuning element.  For instance,
> there is a large number of changes that are made before an Oracle database
> is applied to a RedHat system.  This prepares it to handle the resources
> required by the database to perform optimally.
>
> For those interested in virtualization, how will you be applying it in your
> daily work activities? Or is it really just something you're interested in
> that nobody explained to you and perhaps never grasped?  There is a major
> difference in value as I see it between those two ideas.
>
> Ken
>
> On 1/7/08, Shawn Wells <swells at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Kurt Yoder wrote:
> > > This looks cool. Depending on the exact date, I'd probably be
> > > interested. I'd love to see someone get a virtual machine running, and
> > > figure out how to run 5 instances of various distributions running on
> > > one host. That would be really cool.
> > >
> >
> > Running on my laptop, with Xen:
> >
> > RHEL 5.1
> > RHEL 5.0
> > RHEL 4.4
> > Fedora Core 8
> > Solaris 10 x86
> > Windows XP
> > Windows 2003 Server
> >
> > --
> > Shawn D. Wells
> > Solutions Architect, Federal Team
> > swells at redhat.com
> > Cell: 443-534-0130
> > Office: 703-748-2250
> >
> >
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