On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, John Haxby wrote: > Martin Stricker wrote: > > >Both at work and at home I want a stable and reliable system with a long > >lifespan. Fast changes are dangerous! If I wanted that, I'd go for > >Mandrake or S.u.S.E... Currently I run RHL 7.3 in both places, which now > >need to be replaced because errata support ends. Fedora isn't an option. > >Red hat Enterprise might be an option at work, but with the bad economy > >the budget is very tight. I'm not saying Red Hat is too expensive, but > >there is Debian... > > > > > I may be wrong, but didn't I read somewhere that RHEL *sources* would be > freely available for download (by which I understood src rpms) which > means that it wouldn't be beyond someone, a lot of people in fact, to > maintain a binary version of RHEL built from source. > They are, at least on any of the ftp/rsync mirrors I've seen so far. Maybe even a bigger question are errata (update) rpms. So far all I've seen/heard is that the RHEL subscription provides for a quarterly update cd. And I haven't seen these in srpm form yet. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
