On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Nels Lindquist wrote: > > Huh. I've already become so fed up with Red Hat that I'm switching to > > Debian anyway. (Exim is the default on Debian, but it's easy to > > replace it with Sendmail.)
> Are you fed up with RedHat due to their packaging choices, or their > pricing/licensing? Packaging choices, mostly. I also don't like the way SELinux breaks almost everything useful. :-( I've been using Debian Testing for about a month now, and I'm really quite impressed with how everything fits together nicely. The wealth of packaged software is amazing; almost everything I've wanted is just an "apt-get install" away (with the single unhappy exception of XFCE version 3.) > If it's the latter, you might want to have a look at CentOS. It's a > RHEL rebuild with timely updates but without the high-priced support > contract. We don't use RHEL here anyway, so that's not an issue for us. (Well, we have a RHEL3 build machine for CanIt. We build our RHEL4 binaries with RHEL4 running under QEMU on Debian.) I also feel it's a bit nasty to Red Hat to use CentOS or White Box Linux. Even though it's perfectly legal, I'd rather use a different distro than use (basically) Red Hat's commercial distro without paying anything to Red Hat. I suppose Red Hat doesn't care because it doesn't get money either way, :-) but it's just for my comfort. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
