[CLUE-Tech] Red Hat Ending Support

[Nate Duehr]

On Friday, Jan 16, 2004, at 10:23 America/Denver, David Anselmi wrote:

> Mike Staver wrote:
>> With Red Hat Ending Support for some of their previous versions, and 
>> soon to be 9:
>> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/archives/
>> I would like to find a new distro for my work servers ASAP.  I'm 
>> looking at Suse:
>
> If you like Red Hat and you're not opposed to paying for a distro, why 
> not use Red Hat Enterprise?  If it's because SuSE is cheaper than Red 
> Hat you might reconsider.  All the TCO people say that software cost 
> is a small part of TCO, and you could easily spend more than what you 
> save in the time it takes you to learn a new distro and migrate 
> everything.

Linux is linux.  Bah.

> Seriously, put some numbers on the migration project before you decide 
> RH is too expensive.

Any admin worth their salt had better have already used most of the 
linuxes and at least two of the commercial Unixes... BEFORE doing any 
sort of "migration".  Truly, they'd better have installed the BEST 
server for the job right up front from their knowledge of the plusses 
and minuses of each and not just picked the shiny Red box off the store 
shelf because it was "cool"... if they're a true craftsman.  
(craftsperson?)

> You might even be able to use Fedora if you can get security fixes in 
> a reasonable amount of time.

Why use an unknown in any production environment?  Stupid stupid stupid.

> <flamebait>
> I see parallels between Free vs proprietary software in the "corporate 
> vs community" distro question.  An intuition on that led me to Debian 
> over Red Hat years ago and I haven't regretted it.  Especially with 
> Bruce Perens' User Linux project.
> </flamebait>

Ha.. that part I agree with.  Debian is good software.  Not sure about 
Bruce's rantings lately though, or what they have to do with good 
software.  But the top was more flamebait to me than the part in the 
tag!  ;-)

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com