On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:22:20AM +0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > server on an abandoned secretarial desktop. My cunning plan is to > > make the services it provides gradually migrate from conveniences to > > strategic necessities, and _then_ suggest that maybe we should at least > > use a cast-off server with a paid-up RHEL contract, just like real > > businesses. > > "I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a > weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder >
Off to the sigs file with you! > If you have your own in-house Linux talent you can do what we do: Use > CentOS (www.centos.org). It is RHEL sources (made available to satisfy > the GPL) which are recompiled back to binaries. 100% compatible with > RHEL because it is RHEL minus the branding and commercial support. My > company is standardized on CentOS 4 (RHEL4) for all of our servers and > Fedora on the desktops. It is working out nicely so far. I'm glad the RHEL versions are out there for this and another reason -- that it allows impoverished RH consultants an opportunity to familiarize themselves with it. However, I consider the paid support well worth the relative pittance RH asks for RHEL for any company that has been writing checks to M$. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
