I am evaluating your product for a large financial institution with the hope of rolling it out to some of the high end users, besides if it passes the eval process it will then be allowed on the developers desktops. As it stands now, if Linux is found on anyones desktop it is immediate termination. So far 5 people were given pick slips, so they are definitely not joking. Since my finding will ether give Red Hat Linux the thumbs up or down for at least the next two years if not longer. The only reason senior management has even okayed an official evaluation is because of the recent press. So as the saying goes on Wall Street, if your going to bring it you had better be able to swing it. I found these major problems during the install of your 5.2 version and your 5.9 and they are show stoppers. Test workstation is as follows: IBM 6589 18U dual Ppro 200s 156 megs of RAM Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI 2 Problems: 1. The Adaptecs transfer rate is being set to 10mb/s instead of 40mb/s that it is set on the card. 2. Only 64megs of RAM is recognized by Linux. This is supposable because there is only a 256K L2 cache. Its 1999 this is not an acceptable answer it needs to be fixed right away. 3. As stated the this machine has two processors, but yet even with all the probing going on during install when all is said and done the machine boots up with only one processor. Completely unacceptable. The Microsoft NT advocates in the corporation would have an field day with this. The first thing they would say is it doesnt scale and when if you were to try and make the case that you need to recompile the kernel. The first thing senior management would say is but we dont need to do that with NT, it will see both CPUs and all the memory. And they would be right it is 1999. Im sorry if Im being too hard on you, but this is nothing compared to would happen at an executive briefing and demo. I would like these issues addressed if possible, because I do believe that Linux is the better product even if it doesnt have a journal file system. Just so that you are aware when senior management does look at the demo in attendance will undoubtedly be the heads of at least six of the trading floors and their direct reports. So if Linux works one can only imagine what will happen on the next trading day. In its current state it would be banned form the organization and FUBARed on the trading floors. Right now I have some time, because of Y2K, but that wont last for ever. So any information of patches would be a big help. Thank you for you time. Regards, Joseph Basanta
Is this still valid with the released version of Red Hat Linux 6.0? Please repopen the bug if that is the case.