OT: Gentoo, Red Hat, etc. (was Re: [Mimedefang] Latest MIME-Tools)
Alan Madill
amadill at hwy16.com
Mon Mar 22 20:01:49 EST 2004
> David F. Skoll said:
> > Fedora Core 1's actually not too bad. I have Gentoo on a laptop,
> > but compiling *everything* from source pretty soon gets tiresome.
> Their are some rhel enterprise clones: Taolinux http://taolinux.org/
> Lineox http://www.lineox.com/ Caos linux http://www.caosity.org/
> Whitebox Linux http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/
Timely topic. I am setting up a new server for a customer. We have always
used RedHat distros and I'm comfortable with them. I was going to purchase
Enterprise Server ES basic edition today. At a cost of $350 US it isn't out of
line for a years worth of updates and bug fixes.
I phoned their presales support line just to see if their support was as good as
it was the last time I called (maybe two years ago).
In the course of the conversation I asked if I was allowed to install the OS on
more than one server or if the update rpms were available for download to a
subscriber. The answer to both questions was NO.
Now I have a bit of a quandry. The server I'm building is a medium office
general purpose system. There is a good chance it will be running Oracle
which is only supported on a couple of distros. But I want to stick to the same
platform across most of the sites I support and the Redhat ES is going to be a
bit rich for most of them.
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Alan Madill - Aspen House Systems
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