Re: Redhat lost the plot?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/23/04

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    BearItAll <spam@rassler.co.uk> writes:

    ]I'm sat here with seven Redhat servers under my wing. The first one I used
    ]here was a version 7.x, before that it was various other distros. None of
    ]them bad in any way, afterall, linux is linux so if your building a server
    ]any distro that happens to be on the shelf when you walk into PC World will
    ]do. They can all be made to work the same way, the only real difference is
    ]what is loaded for you at install/setup time. (glossing over conf location
    ]problems, because they usually easily solved).

    ]All work fine, most are covered by redhat for updates. At first each time I
    ]added a system I bought a box set, because before the days of subscription
    ]it was almost impossible to explain to Accounts the donation system when
    ]you purformed any updates yourself. 'But Robbie we already have the
    ]servers, why are you asking for more money? And please don't say that word
    ]donation again in front of the ladies.'.

    ]The subscription system worked, at least it did, until part way through a
    ]year (was this two years ago) IT received an email telling us redhat wasn't
    ]playing that game any more, to carry on you have to start from scratch and
    ]pay again, but this time much more.

    ]So I didn't bother except on my main two.

    ]But, now that I'm planning for next year I have to say that Redhat isn't
    ]really viable any more. It is just too expensive.

    ]Any ditro will do the same job, I'm not particularly bothered about nice gui
    ]tools to setup network and samba, because I've always been a commandline
    ]man anyway.

    ]Mandrake is ok, but they pitching their prices high too, not as high as
    ]redhat, but still higher than the distro deserves.

    ]Suse is a pain in the bum as a works server, until you strip it clean (as a
    ]desktop client its possibly the best of the lot). They do a distro
    ]specifically as a server which is probably already strip'ed clean.

    ]Then you gat all of the nice clean distros, same kernels, same gui's, in
    ]fact, the same. Other than the bits that are setup for you when you
    ]install.

    ]I personally don't think that accounts will look favourably on me if I say
    ]to them 'Well, if I go for Redhat, it's the same as Slackware and others
    ]except on the first day when I install it I get a pretty blue box that lets
    ]me type the samba details into it. erm. rather than opening an editor and
    ]doing it myself and only for a price difference of $1000 or so'.

    ]Sorry, just in a mood because my boss is in a mood and now my appo is in a
    ]mood. But it is true that I can't put Redhat in my budget.

    Put Mandrake in your budget-- in particular Mandrake Club silver or gold.
    Then download the server.

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