Re: Abandoned Redhat customer needs advice
From: Steve Schreiber (sschreibATmagma.ca)
Date: 11/05/03
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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:49 -0500
evan.cooch@NOSPAMcornell.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:26:15 -0500, "Don" <T u v ix @ace dsl.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>I would have been happy to keep paying the yearly fee for the convenience of
>>RHN updates and had no problem with updating my distro once every 1.5 years.
>>The attraction to Redhat for my business was the ease and notification of
>>updates through RHN update, the per incident pay support is there if you
>>need it (never needed it) and that of a continually updated distro.
>>
>>With all that now ending in a few months where does a small business owner
>>that does not have the budget for Redhat Enterprise and is only familiar
>>with RH distro to Linux go?
>>
>>Bottom line is I want to run my business and not spend allot of time in
>>kernel or package updates. I essentially want to have access to something
>>similar to RHN update to keep me out of trouble with security issues related
>>to my web servers.
>>
>>Right now I have several RH 8.0 servers running apache, w/frontpage
>>extension, iptables, postfix, (samba on internal servers) and a web perl app
>>using mysql server on SMP kernel.
>>
>>I assume it is only the Redhat distro that has the ease of RPM installation?
>>
>>Are there other distros as easy to setup and maintain as Redhat? For
>>example with other distros are package installation, uninstall and upgrade
>>as easy unzipping and doing the 'make install', 'make clean' (or do they
>>have something similiar to rpm?).
>>
>>With Novell's acquisition of SUSE I think this was a really bad move for
>>Redhat to abandon small business owners. What does this group think about
>>SUSE as an alternative?
>>
>>
>
>
> Don't panic - have a look at fedora.redhat.com, and wait to see how
> that shakes out. I'm in a similar position - I use redhat, and have
> fooled with other distros. I use redhat for ease, and nothing else.
>
> But, fedora is bsically the community core dump from redhat, and by
> all accounts, it might actually be worth it.
>
> And, regarding Novell and SUSe, my guess is that its a matter of time
> before they adopt the redhat 'enterprise' pricing model. In fact, I
> anticipate that all of the major distros will be bought up. Sooner or
> later.
Hey,
I think I will be doing the same and checking out Fedora once it is
out. I have clients on RH (downloaded version) and support it myself.
If Fedora does not have RPM updates, what is one to do though.
Slighty OT but am I correct in assuming that if you purchase a RH distro
now, that you can only install onto one system? Or can you only get
support on the one system you pay for, but re-install on as many systems
as you can get your hands on? (with no support).
S.
-- --> GNU/Linux is user friendly... it's just picky about its friends.
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