On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:41:19PM -0600, Steve Strong wrote: > I am the system admin in a high school in iowa. I've set up a nice > little LAN using two Redhat Linux 9.0 servers. I've been reading the > Redhat site as well as a couple of third party sites regarding Redhat's > decision to focus on enterprise support and development and to work with > the Fedora Project for "bleeding edge" development. I'm wondering if > you all have been talking about this, and if so, what your opinions are > concerning the matter. There's been a lot of discussion. For my home server, I went with Red Hat Professional Workstation. This is essentially RHEL WS but with only up2date support. I got it for $82 at buy.com and it includes a full year of RHN. It's a little lighter on servers than RHEL ES, having only Samba, Apache, openssh, imap, sendmail, postfix, and NFS. No bind or vsftpd. None of the enterprise packages include mysql-server any more. I added bind and vsftpd myself. It means I'm responsible for those updates, but neither one is available through my firewall anyway. The licensing is per server - there's a subscription key in the box. > I currently depend on up2date for security and bug-fix updates and it > doesn't sound like such services will be available. The prices for even > the low-end enterprise OS's are probably too high for my school to > support. Red Hat is working on some educational pricing. Don't rule out a contact to their sales team to see what your choices and pricing are. > I'm interested in any and all comments as I plan for the next 12 months > or so... Since RH Pro Workstation includes 12 months of RHN support on a 5-year life cycle, this might work for you. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
