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.
This were my thoughts almost entirely. $349 isn't too bad for one server. I can _almost_ justify that for my home server. Mind you, the server cost me £40, so it seems it bit excessive to pay considerably more than that for "free" software.
Fedora has now hit the streets. I have the ISOs here [gestures right] but I haven't installed it on anything.
I'm running RHEL3 ES on my work machine, but I don't pay for that personally :-)
I'm not greatly enamoured of SUSE (they seem to have changed from SuSE) or Mandrake, although SUSE 9 does look much better and you can install over the net for nothing. The boxed set cost £60 here in the UK and you get a big thick book with that.
There are still two other choices. But these require some work. There was a mailing list announced in this list a little while ago to increase the life of the Fedora releases -- basically to do the backporting work that Red Hat used to do. Yet another choice is to build an RHEL release yourself. There's a mailing list for this as well. Red Hat still make all the RHEL sources available and it is possible to build the release from those. There's a mailing list for that as well that was mentioned in this llist. Isn't it nice to have a searchable list? There's even a HOWTO for building RHEL2.1 from sources.
For my home server I think a self-built RHEL is the best way forward. It's a fair amount of work, but it's probably going to be a fun project costing only my time. And I have a nice new disc that I can use for the build. I also have the luxury of having a VMware license that I can use for the build machine rather than having to use a "production" machine for builds, at least until I've got the first iteration of a build completed.
jch
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