[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat9 - hostid doesn't work

[Chris Cox]

Kyle Davenport wrote:
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> The biggest problem I have with RH9 is the NPTL change.  Perhaps for some
> server app's there will be a performance improvement, but I always roll my
> own kernels, starting with Linus', and the whole system suffers expecting
> NPTL in the kernel.  Getting Nvidia's drivers to work was painful.  My
> measure of a good distribution is how easily it can be modified - and
> RedHat's getting harder and harder.  At work, where I don't have a lot of
> time to mess with my machine:

I wasn't even aware that the Nvidia stuff would work with the NPTL stuff...
you might want to share... or was that just a RedHat "scare" memo?