I am pretty much in the same boat. I am extensively testing Suse and Slackware at the moment. I am quite pleased with the Suse 8.2 distro so far. I haven't seen their 9.0 on the mirrors yet. AR -----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Fraser Sent: 10 November 2003 14:59 To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: What are the best RHL alternatives I got an email last week letting me know that RHL 9 is EOL April 04. Two weeks ago RHN [the bastards] automaticaly renewed my subscription, and now I only get 6 months of updates for the full price. Now that is what I can come to expect from RH in the future. Now I have an issue, should I fork out 50% [RH's way of easing the pain after they ripped off a bunch of their paying supporters] of the US$349 for RHEL ES Basic or go to another distribution . Since I need bind and samba server, RHEL WS doesn't seem to fit. I will also then have to fork out substantial cash each year to keep my machine up to date. I didn't mind paying ~$300 per year volentarily to buy the latest and greatest box sets for RHL, but RHEL is just out of the park for my one server at home, and its price is aproaching M$ server software which has FREE updates. The thought of supporting Bill Gates sickens me almost as much as being ripped off by RH whom I have supported over the last 7 years. Fedora doesn't seem very apealing especialy since a week ago when I last checked, it still wasn't even ready to download an ISO. I use my RHL machine at home as mostly just a dns,mail and file server [560GB] for R&D to keep up to date and develop software and patches for ISP management, and automated file management. Could people let me know about good experiences with other distributions and the benefits of that distribution. Thanx in advance. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
