<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13453">Having spent a 3 month contract at a Fed Gov't contractor who used RHEL & had a support contract, with Satellite, I can tell you that support was less than stellar. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13525">We must have had 20+ support cases open with RH about Satellite alone. It appears in the latest incarnation of Satellite 6.x, RH "re-engineered" it by cobbling together Foreman & other open source projects. Certainly not ready for prime time. More like a 1.0 product release. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13810">We were trying to connect RHEL 6.x machine accounts to AD & the customer wouldn't pay for any RH or 3rd party tool. RH suggested FreeIPA. Having experience with LDAP, I found it to be half baked at best. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_14292"><br>Any tool RH has that is worth a damn ain't free. But this is probably typical of most software vendors. <br><br>Got to agree with Dave, that most of the time, we had to search for & implement workarounds ... which of course ate up valuable time & man hours. <br><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_14718">In the developer world, it looks like Ubuntu is king. Not sure why, but maybe its the support? </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450898702673_13427"><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 1:20 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson@TheGeek.NU> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">CentOS isn't the only CentOS.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Scientific and Rocks are my favorite RHEL derivatives, other than CentOS. Oracle Linux is, without doubt, my least favorite.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">--<br clear="none">David L. Willson<br clear="none">Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br clear="none">RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu_CP SUSE_CLA<br clear="none">Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://sofree.us/" target="_blank">http://sofree.us</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<div class="yqt9105969971" id="yqtfd82053"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">clue mailing list: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br clear="none">For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue" target="_blank">http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>