 | | | RH Linux Enterprise version? | RH Linux Enterprise version? 2003-11-05 - By Steven W. Orr
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On Wednesday, Nov 5th 2003 at 14:39 -0500, quoth Steve Murphy:
=>The life cycle from what I know on the Enterprise versions is 5 years.
=>I'm also wondering about their philosophy. My 2 cents - RPM made many
=>users dependent on RH and they jumped versions very quick and now that
=>everyone is on the band wagon they are going to try and force everyone
=>to pay and see if the dependence on RPM is strong enough to hold the
=>client base. If it does hold they will make a huge profit, if it doesn't
=>work I think you will see Fedora become RH 10.
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=>To: valhalla-list@(protected)
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=>I have no problem buying Red Hat. I've been buying it pretty-much all along.
=>My problem is that they have life-cycled their base distro's very short. How
=>long will I have support for EL or WS if I switch? This is what is
=>disturbing. Well, that and the fact that there seems to be a fundamental
=>shift in philosophy at Red Hat.
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=><<JAV>>
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=>From: "Steve Murphy" <list@(protected)>
=>Sent: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:05:01 -0500
=>Subject: RE: RH Linux Enterprise version?
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=>> I have several servers running 7.3 and the announcement is causing
=>> me headaches as to what distro to go with. I think that the Fedora
=>> project http://fedora.redhat.com/ will be the answer. Its an updated
=>> RH 9 but will remain free to use. I've heard of no compelling
=>> reasons to use the enterprise versions and I would switch to Gentoo
=>> or BSD if Fedora fails.
=>>
=>> Steve
Wow. That's a hell of a leap. I have this image in my mind of a big old
rusty hypo labeled RPM shooting into the arm of some desperately addicted
Red Hat user.
You can run Red Hat or Mandrake or SUSE or probably 100 other RPM based
distros. And you can also find a bunch that are not rpm based. The choice
is yours. Hell, you can even remove rpm from the picture of an rpm based
distro if you like.
Package management is better than no package management. RPM is a good
package manager but it has flaws. Architecturally it may be that a change
is soon to be desireable. What you should be spending your money on should
not be based on the distribution. Once it's installed, they all look
alike.
--
-Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have -
-happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ
-Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all-
-individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net
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