On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 06:51:13AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > There are "Rebuild Projects" available that take the source provided by > the upstream provider and rebuild RPMS that you can use. > > They do have free updates and have software with the same version > numbers as the upstream provider ... however, they do not have paid 4 > hour or next day support, etc. Small correction: some providers of free rebuilds (like we at X/OS do for our X/OS Linux) *do* offer support with a predefined response time (and tuned to the needs of the customer) for their RHEL-rebuild product. That support is completely independent from Red Hat, of course. > The "Rebuild Projects" provide quality software ... but if you need > official paid support or if you need an officially supported OS for 3rd > Party Software then your only real option is to stay with RHEL or hire > someone to maintain your servers. Same comment, except that some 3rd party sofware vendors indeed might require that you have "the real thing" (RHEL) with a RH support contract. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
