Maybe I will endup having to use M$ at work :-(
Over this last year there hasn't been any good news from RH. All I heard been hearing is "Show me the Money" or fill out the polls?
I'll have to take a look at the Fedora linux project to see if it will be feasible.
I have finaly found and fixed wine and other missing pieces for RH 9, thanks to
freshrpms who appear to be having there own problems in the UK.
If things keep going the way they have been... Billy "Goat" Gates and his evil
empire will eat linux for lunch. FreeBSD is as good if not better in the small server
arena, and if you are going to have to pay for a server OS and support, it is hard
to beat the clustering and performance from HP/DEC/Compaq or IBM. And If you
need to pay for a workstation OS then Apple OS X is pretty good.
I checked out FreeBSD, but it is pretty lack lustre for a desktop work station, but
great for servers. We have moved all our servers to FreeBSD over the last two
years and are happy with there performance and availablity of timely updates. We
Have setup our own CVS server that updates every night, so we can upgrade our
machines localy as soon as updates are available. Having a local repository is great
since we have a dozen machines.
I could use FreeBSD for my workstation but the CD-ROM support does not exist
in wine yet on FreeBSD :^( , so I can't FileMaker Pro, which I currently need. If we
ever move our customer DB to a web interface then that will no longer hold me back
either.
I have tried Mandrake and Suse but didn't like them as much as RH. I never tried
debian and doubt SlackWare would be feasible if it even exists anymore.
A FreeBSD port like Linux distribution would be great... but can the world handle
yet another Linux distribution?
Buck wrote:
As per my conversation with a Red Hat salesman yesterday. It will only be available to Enterprise customers.
I am sure your existing accounts will continue to work until they expire. I am guessing that it will last about 6 months since Fedora is due out. When Fedora is released, I assume that marks the start of the last 6 months support cycle.
Buck
-----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Vanecek Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:15 AM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fedora vs. RHL
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:09:18 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote
At 23:02 9/22/2003, you wrote:
Assume that Joe Sysmanager is used to buying a boxed set of Red Hat Linux and installing it on several production servers. He does not have a SLA with Red Hat and doesn't use up2date, but simply downloadsOther than losing the ability to purchase a boxed set from the store
security patches amd bug fixes from Red Hat's web site. What will he
lose, that he has now, by going with Fedora when it is available?
shelf and thus contribute some money to Red Hat, I can't see that he will lose anything at all. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I am a paid subscriber to RHN for all the systems I use. The use of up2date and automatic updates has been a real time saver. Losing this would be a definite problem for me. That is the issue that I have not seen addressed yet?
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