As part of Sun's new
range of x64 (x86) servers, Sun now
sells support for RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). This is all well and good and certainly pushes Sun kit into "white box" territory, but we do have a bit of catching up on the knowledge side of things.I've been identified as a good resource to train up as I've already got a fair amount of Linux knowledge. As part of this, I was lucky enough to go on a customised (for Sun) RHEL training course. Whilst I didn't learn much new, one of the things I did learn about completely amazed me - gathering crash dumps on RHEL. I tell you now, I wasn't amazed at how good it was; quite the contrary.
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