It uses the same kernel as RHEL uses. Generic in the sense that it includes exactly what RHEL included in their shipping kernel.
CentOS 3.3 (same as RHEL 3 U3) has some SATA support for boot/install devices. I believe older versions had SATA support, but not for it as the boot device.
The CentOS kernel includes all 2.6.x backports supplied by RH.
RHEL 4 is a VERY early beta right now. As far as I know CentOS plans to have a RHEL 4 clone available. It's plenty early right now as RHEL 4 is 6+ months from anything resembling a production release.
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Mário Gamito wrote:
I read in CentOS website that it uses a vanilla kernel. Why don't RHEL's ? Does it support SATA, namely Intel's ? Does it have backports from 2.6 ?
And what about plans for the incoming RHEL 4 ? Are there some ?
Thank you.
Warm regards, Mário Gamito