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Older 802.11g adaptors that work in OpenBSD have largely been removed from Ubuntu. RedHat removes older SAS RAID controllers and other random hardware they dis
by chasil 4y ago
Older 802.11g adaptors that work in OpenBSD have largely been removed from Ubuntu.
RedHat removes older SAS RAID controllers and other random hardware they dislike that Oracle includes in the UEK (which is much more straightforward than a tainted module from ElRepo).
Each of these has a focus, and a specialization. Knowing them is half the battle.
- doubled112 4y agoKnowing is half the battle. RedHat's kernel annoys me in ways others tend not to. I used to think "Red Hat is basically Fedora, but old(/tested)" but that's one place they are pretty different. They strip kernel modules out for a fair amount of hardware, instead of just stating it is unsupported. It makes sense from a business perspective, but I've found myself surprised by it a couple of times. There's a big difference between not supporting it and disabling it completely. On the flip side, their version number is near useless at a glance due to the number of backports.
- em-bee 4y agonot just hardware, but also things like filesystems and probably other things too. i used to go with centos as my preferred server operating system due to its long release cycles, but when redhat removed btrfs from the kernel i was forced to switch to debian as the next most reliable and longterm supported server operating system.