Re: Question on Redhat

From: Markku Kolkka (markku.kolkka_at_iki.fi)
Date: 01/16/04


Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:36:32 +0200

wing wrote:
> I would like to hear some opinions from you guys (i.e. Linux
> professionals and experts). Should we upgrade the server to Redhat
> 9.0, Fedora or Redhat Enterprise server??

Red Hat 9 support ends April 30th, so changing to it would make little
sense. If you need commercial support, get RHEL, if mailing
list/newsgroup support from other users is enough, get Fedora.

> Instead of using up2date provided by Redhat, I've heard that we can
> somehow use apt-get to replace it. Is that true??

Installing apt-get won't help if nobody is making updated packages for
your distribution.

-- 
        Markku Kolkka
        markku.kolkka@iki.fi


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