I think Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0 will be a good soultion keeping support, features and services in mind. I have all three (AS,ES and WS) and I used AS and ES on my servers serving mail, DNS, DHCP and HTTP. VK On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 05:44, Michel Fayez wrote: > Hi all, > > Here I have a little decision that I have to > make in my corporate. I have an old and small system > that runs on a VAX machine with the clients logged on > from terminal through a terminal server. I have the > responsibility to upgrade this system with the least > cost that could be ever possible. > > I have chosen Red Hat Linux 9.0 to use it on > some high configuration PC, using the same hardware > existing(Network Infrastructure, Terminal Servers, > VT420 Consoles connecting to the PC). > > I need now to obtain the commercial license for > Red Hat as the deployment process is going to start. I > found that Red Hat 9.0 is not for sale any more. Thus, > I have a few questions: > > 1) Do I need the upgrade to Linux Enterprise 3.0, or > the current Red Hat Linux 9.0 is sufficient for my > simple configuration? > 2) If I do not need any upgrade, what about the > support that could be obtained from the Red Hat > company or other Linux communities. Is it available, > or it is a bad choice to use an old version of OS that > is not supported anymore? > 3) I am rather new to the Linux world, so will it be > available to get more packages with low cost if I > decided to be sticked with RedHat Linux 9.0? > 4) If I have to upgrade to Linux Enterprise 3.0, which > family (AS, WS, ES)? > 5) I think AS family is out of my thinking because it > is too big of my project. I wonder now what to use the > ES or the WS. I know the WS is used for client > configuration but it is not a subset of the ES. Also, > the ES is used as a server configuration but it does > not include all the features and packages of the WS. I > wonder if I obtained any of them, could add what I > need more from the other's packages and at what cost? > > Thanks for your time ... > > Yours Sincerely, > Eng. Michel Fayez > Senior System Programmer > Egypt. > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25 > http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
