FWIW, I'm using FC1 as my front end firewall...haven't had a single problem with it. On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:22:07PM -0500, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > > I was just wondering if there is a general concensus (sp) of what everyone > > is planning to do when RedHat 9.0 is no longer supported? > > > > Are most going to the Fedora Project or paying to go to the Enterprise > > Linux? > > I can't recommend Fedora for a production site. I can't even feel > comfortable running Fedora for a personal site if I HAVE to trust it to > keep running. Anecdotal reports aside, it just doesn't have any believable > quality committment from RedHat; it's bleeding-edge experimental, by > their own admission. > > The problem I've found is that under the "new" model, the cost vs. risk > differential, for at least small clients, isn't enough to wean them away > from Microsoft. Larger clients are as bad--unless they've some political > commitment to Linux, they're looking at risks--both the uncertainty of > new software packages + compatibility questions, and the legal risks from > those morons at SCO--that make the choice questionable at the pricing > models RedHat has in place for its Enterprise distros. > > Probably the worst killer for RedHat is that you can't download RPMs > from a different platform--that is, if you buy Professional Workstation, > you can't DL RPMs for, say, sendmail, since that wasn't originally part > of the package you bought. (This confirmed again yesterday from a sales > person at RH). > > You didn't pay for it, you may say; neither did RedHat. They _built_ > it, and integrated it--but the cost for just turning it into an RPM > is marginal. Their fees, supposedly, are to cover the installation > and ongoing support costs. So how about allowing you to install an > RPM that's not provided with the platform you bought, but you don't > get support? Maybe a (much reduced) fee for DL access? But that's not > an option. > > This *is* a killer; what's the advantage of buying RedHat if you can't > justify the expense of a particular platform, need some services RH > has arbitrarily decided belong in another platform--but can't use RPMs > and have to build packages not delivered with the platform from source? > You'd just as well go with any other Linux distro; RedHat and RPM aren't > helping you. This model is ill-conceived, and has effectively means I > can't recommend RedHat to small to mid-sized clients. > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
