 | | | RHEL and third party apps | RHEL and third party apps 2004-02-10 - By Craig Daters
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We use RH9 on four different boxes running mail, web, ftp, dns, etc.
I recently installed MailScanner, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin on our
mail server. The SpamAssassin RPM I installed was RH 's RPM and did
not include the Bayesian learning script that maked SpamAssassin so
attractive. I ended un-installing RH 's RPM in favor of the newer up
to date RPM 's available from the SpamAssassin website. I now have,
IMHO, a really kick-butt mail server. With the MailWatch web-gui for
MailScanner. this thing really rocks! With Feb 28 rapidly
approaching, I find myself torn. The owner of our company is prepared
to, and has instructed me to jump onto the RHEL product line. But I
find myself holding back....
My problem is this--how available will third-party applications and
software be now, that to have a copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
requires a purchase? Who is going to buy a copy of it just to
continue development for it? Will I find myself unable to install
ClamAV because the developers of ClamAV don 't feel like purchasing
RHEL? I understand that this is a little dramatic. But inevitably I
can see a user who only works with RPM 's, wanting to have virus
scanning capabilities on their server, but can 't because there is no
ClamAV RPM. Is this clear? I just have the feeling that people like
the ones developing MailScanner\MailWatch\SpamAssassin won 't have
'RHEL installation how-to 's ' for their software pretty soon and where
will that leave us? Dependant upon Red Hat for these things, (Who
didn 't even include the Bayesian learning part of SpamAssassin?)
Sure, I can download the source and try building it myself, but now
I 'm so far away from what attracted me to Red Hat in the first place.
Granted, I had to install from tarballs the afore mentioned apps, but
it went just as smooth as an RPM install. And I 'm sure it only went
this smooth because the authors have been developing for RH (as well
as others) only because RH was freely available. That is not the case
any longer. I just really find myself trying to recall the value that
I saw in Red Hat before.
I have used ONLY Red Hat for so long now that I have no problem
moving into RHEL, but I still want to be able to whip together a
solution like I have with my mail server. What will Red Hat do to
provide these kind of options to us from here on out? Surely these
are options that are still desired by RHEL users right?
Does anyone have any arguments to offer pro/con? I pose this question
to both the users list and the RHN list as I feel that this is
relevant to both. Am I wrong?
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Craig Daters (craig@(protected))
Graphic Designer / Systems Administrator
West Press Printing & Copying
1663 West Grant Road
Tucson, Arizona 85745-1433
Tel: 520-624-4939
Fax: 520-624-2715
www.westpress.com
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