On Friday 29 September 2006 14:39, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you don't > >> buy the support package (about US$10/machine) > > > > The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That is too > > much for me. For a company or someone serious about servers, that's OK and > > quite far given their security updates. > > Redhat offer some discounts for developers, etc.
That is interesting. > > As a Bacula feature request is now in their system and has been requested > by at least 25 different customers, they may well be interested in giving > you a free license for development purposes. Hmmm. That is even more interesting. I actually have RHEL and access to their network, but that is because I administer a machine, where the organization (MercyShips) has a global RedHat license. That said, other than having the CDs for recovery purposes, which unfortunately I needed recently, I cannot load them on my machines. > > > I don't disagree with your assessment of installations - I use suse at > home, but I have serious issues with their level of professionalism in the > commercially supported products. Well, distros are a bit of a religious thing and very personal. I look for leading edge software, good update/security service, and stability. RedHat is excellent for that, but now that they are commercial, too expensive. Fedora as you say and as I experienced is too "bleeding edge". I asked them to use a 9 month release cycle, and they sent me a very kind reply giving their reasons for a 6 month cycle. I then looked at a lot of distros: debian, kubantu, ubantu, madrivia, ... However, most of them wouldn't even install on a leading edge Dell (debian, ubantu), others (kubantu) are for users that don't know Unix or the distro is a one man show without a significant organization, or rely on other distros for security patches, ... For me, for the moment, with the exception of this SCSI bug, SuSE has been great (as I say, for me). One good thing from the time I wasted on this "bug" is that I learned that within certain restrictions (SeLinux, AppArmor, ...), unlike rpms, I can mix and match kernels from different distros as I want. > > (Having said that, RHEL installation is also very straoghtforward) Yes, but if *anything* goes wrong, it simply dies. SuSE has a vga exception handler that takes over (sort of like a rescue disk) that allows you in many cases to get out of trouble -- e.g. switch where the source CDs are coming from, .... really quite cool. > > AB > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
