On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:54:08PM +0300, Ali Erdinç Köro?lu wrote: > The main difference between RedHat and the other community distros > is support, if you are not interesting with support why dont you use > slackware, gentoo or ubuntu etc.. RedHat not selling license or something > but support service. Well, that's one view; but I believe you're missing a point, and if you continue to operate under this assumption you'll miss much of the utility of Linux. You buy RedHat because it's a supported distribution, suitable for use in a commercial environment. I don't use RedHat on my personal/company servers; *I* don't need the support, and the costs are right out of my pocket. But I wouldn't dare put something like Fedora in an untended client site--while I have no qualms about dropping a RedHat Enterprise box in as a mail server at such a site. But there ARE packages that add real utility to a Linux installation that, for one reason or another, aren't distributed by RedHat. Commercial third- party applications; or Open Source packages that they simply haven't decided are part of what they're going to support. Linux, unlike Windows (and like Unix), is adequately designed such that, unless a package actually requires kernel mods--and usually even then--it is unlikely to bring down the system even when misbehaving. You have a stable, up-to-date system, AND you get your add-on capabilities. If you have a problem with the add-on, disable or remove it and you're either back where you were, or you find that the problem isn't because of that package. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
