As someone who has 1) used open software for some time, and 2) paid
for RedHat subscriptions for some time, I think that the small amount
that I personally pay is worth it compared to the amount of time I
would have to spend myself to re-compile all the updates and what
not. I also use Scientific Linux, and appreciate all the hard work
that goes on in the background, as I have experience rebuilding
updates from srpm, and its a time consuming and can be daunting task
if you have a missing dependency.
Even if RH releases satellite server, which would be cool (since i
never actually thought it was worth paying for it since it does
basically the same thing as RHN, and thats already covered) there
would still be the issue of having all the packages. Satellite server
only hosts them, not builds and maintains them.
Thanks to all the SL team for their hard work.
Just to clarify: I use RH on my critical web servers / application
servers, because they stay updated. Our cluster is running SL since I
don't update that except for about twice a year since its basically
protected from the outside, and since all the modules that rely on
specific versions of the kernel, etc...
- Donald Tripp
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On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Miles O'Neal wrote:
Michael Mansour said...
|> I hear RH is going to open source this.
|> Does the SL team plan to build this as
|> well? Just curious.
|
|Where did you hear this?
|
|RHN is their bread and butter, I'm surprised to hear this news.
Slashdot pointed to an ARS Technica article about
RHEL5, which linked to an article about this, which
linked to this at inforworld:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/
red_hat_to_open.html
I was pretty surprised, too. I suspect he's right, that
this is a reaction to Oracle. Whether it'll stick, who
can say? 8^/
-Miles
