On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:41:19PM -0600, Steve Strong wrote: [...] > 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. > > Are there other distributions people are considering? Are > smaller/poorer organizations like mine expecting the fedora project to > provide the same level of product/updates and support that we're used > to? Well, at home, my firewall/server has been running OpenBSD for a long time now, as I'm very happy with their security policy. Also, contrary to most Linux distros, OpenBSD supports Sparc (my firewall/server is an UltraSparc 5). On the desktop, I've stayed with RHL7.3 up until now, as I was waiting for RHL8.2, but that one never materialized. Instead, we now have this change of policy from RH, which caused me to reconsider my options. I decided to migrate my laptop and two of my desktops to Mandrake 9.1/9.2 and I'll probably migrate one desktop to Fedora and keep the last x86 on RHL7.3 for the time being. As for Mandrake, it's too early to judge their support, but I have to say I'm rather impressed by urpmi. It seems to work really well, as far as I can judge it after using it such a short time. I never bothered with up2date, as I was too lazy to find out how all that subscription stuff works (I rather had my own scripts), but urpmi got me hooked immediately. And you don't need an account. I'd say, it's at least another option to consider. Cheerio, Thomas -- ==> RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&r=1&w=2 <== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
