RE: RHEL 5 on a Dell PowerEdge 600SC

Sorin Srbu wrote:

>> The 600SC was "certified" on RHEL 3.  That would lead me to
>> assume that it'll run RHEL 5 just fine, but YMMV, of course.

RHEL is awesome, I am sure you will soon love it as much as many of us do. Welcome to the list, as well.

> Is it generally assumed that new RHEL-releases are backwards
> compatible, and thus certified, on eg server-systems like this
> Dell mentioned?

I don't believe this is "officially" the case, but more times than not this has been the case (in my experience, anyways). I'm sure there are instances where new versions of RHEL will not include something (drivers/other software/etc.) that was needed for a previous version (especially in the case of older hardware), but RHEL supports a *lot* of hardware devices.

As always, if your system isn't on the HCL, make sure to test it extensively.

-j

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