Re: Which Red Hat version?
From: Steve Schreiber (sschreibATTmagmaDOTTca)
Date: 05/12/04
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:26:21 -0400
Mark A wrote:
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> Security patches for RH 9 have also been quite numerous, and in reading the
> descriptions of them, quite serious if someone wanted to exploit them. Of
> course, RH will not be providing any future updates for RH 9, since service
> has now been discontinued. The alternative is to move to another RH product
> and pay $60 per year for updates.
>
>
Hey,
Just to comment on statements like the above. Sure, RH may have had a
lot of security patches in the past while, but look at what they are
patching, EVERYTHING. This includes sendmail, OO, Apache, Bind, LDAP,
the kernel etc... Microsoft is patching their OS. Do you see a
difference? How many applications can you install out of the box on a
RH system? How many apps does a Windows box have out of the box. If
they include Exchange, MS Office, Visio, Project and everything thing
else that has a Linux equiv. then the number of 'updates' might start
being more realistic. Windows does next to nothing out of the box,
while a Linux System is an Enterprise Solution.....
But yeah, the $60.00 does suck.
S.
-- --> GNU/Linux is user friendly... it's just picky about its friends.
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