Mark Achanzar wrote: > good things in life are FREE... > i'd go for http://www.centos.org/ :) or better yet, Fedora.
Whether they are "better" depends on what you're trying to do. The bulk of what you pay for in a Red Hat license is the support contract that goes along with it, and well, any serious enterprise deployment will insist on having that. It's also only one of the two GNU/Linux distributions available that's certified with most of the finicky proprietary enterprise applications (e.g. Oracle). Having the official Red Hat (or if you prefer SuSE) Enterprise installed is the only way to convince Oracle support that you deserve their help. CentOS is useful for testing applications ultimately targeted to RHEL, and for setups where finicky proprietary software and/or dependable third-party support is not an issue. Fedora is only better when what you do is development or for a personal desktop. They come with all the latest and greatest, and while that's fine for your own box, such a thing is a death sentence for an enterprise deployment that should be as stable as a mountain. -- While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
