What is the major difference between RH 3 and RH 4

Mridul Dutta i.mridul at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 18:38:28 UTC 2005


thanks a lot

On 12/24/05, Tom Callahan <callahant at tessco.com> wrote:
>
> RedHat 4 uses udev, which is a far step away from devfs. The device tree
> is populated at boot time dynamically, and there are many things you
> will need to learn about how to configure device perms, etc. with udev.
> I suggest purchasing a RHEL4 or FC4 study guide or book.
>
> HAL is the hardware abstraction layer, which I believe is new with
> RHEL4, but was present (correct me if wrong) in fc2 and fc3. Again this
> is something you need to read and study.
>
> The differences are not too great, but kernel 2.4 and 2.6 are quite
> different, and you would benefit greatly from a book on RHEL4 or FC4.
> Christopher Negus writes the "Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4
> Bible" which I recommend.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Callahan
> TESSCO Technologies
> (443)-506-6216
> callahant at tessco.com
>
> A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on
> the forehead get too noticeable.
>
>
>
> Mridul Dutta wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >  i only knows abt RH 4 is having kernel 2.6 but i dont know anything
> >besides.
> >
> >pls help me for this..
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >mridul
> >
> >
> >
> >On 12/23/05, Tom Callahan <callahant at tessco.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>You mean besides udev, hal, and 2.6 kernel? :)
> >>
> >>Tom Callahan
> >>TESSCO Technologies
> >>(443)-506-6216
> >>callahant at tessco.com
> >>
> >>A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on
> >>the forehead get too noticeable.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Mridul Dutta wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi friend ,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        i have passed RHCT from Redhat version 3.0 . But i want to do
> >>>
> >>>
> >>RHCE
> >>
> >>
> >>>in RH 4 ..so is there any major changes in between this .
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Regards
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Mridul
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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