Re: Redhat lost the plot?

From: LX-i (lxi0007_at_netscape.net)
Date: 10/24/04

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    BearItAll wrote:
    > I'm sat here with seven Redhat servers under my wing.
    [snip]
    >
    > 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'.

    You might want to take a look at White Box Enterprise Linux. It's free,
    and built from the same sources as RHEL. (A library in Louisiana was
    facing just your quandary, and that's how WBEL came into existence - the
    cost of the RHEL licenses was going to exceed the value of their
    hardware!) I've never used it in a production environment - but then, I
    don't have a "production environment" at my house. :) Lots of people
    on the user's mailing list are doing so successfully, though.

    http://whiteboxlinux.org 

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