Niels Voll wrote:
One of the differences tends to be the guaranteed length of updates for a particular release. If I recall correctly, the length of time from original release of a particular version to the ending of update patches is around 5 years for the major distro's.This is a big thing too! Fedora Core ends patches after a year way too quick i think even for desktops!
Yeah whitebox is a good one too! (I just dont really like RPM based distros)
For Red Hat (RHEL) a number of clones have evolved, which essentially give you that long term update cycle, but without the price tag of RHEL. A couple of those are
https://www.scientificlinux.org/ http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/
Some times Novell sends out 30 day demos of they're products to try. (But not to keep :P )
There's at least one more for RHEL, but the name escapes me at the moment.
I don't know if there a similar freebie clones for SuSE/Novell Enterprise - never heard of any so far ...
Overall the enterprise editions can be viewed as more money to the vendor for superior hand holding. Going without probably means a bit more money (i.e. additional hours) to a consultant for hand holding. How's that for an ethical dilemma / conflict of interest for a consultant to advise on that very issue?
This is very true to!
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Travis R.
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