Hi Gary:
I absolutely agree with you. RedHat will lose their customer base and the goodwill they have built up over the years by dropping support of their distro's. Looks like the VC financial types won out.
At 12:25 PM 5/12/2004, Gary Smith wrote:
JC,
That's a rock and a hard place than many people are under as well. We will continue using 9.0 for some time as we have a large infrastructure built upon it. We took the time to switch many servers from Windows 2K to Linux for cost savings reasons. Enevitably the plan didn't work out as well as it could have. We have been toying with the idea of compiling out the Ent 3.0 kernel but it's something that's low on our list now.
I think the big problem is that RedHat, while still needing to stay profitable, has hurt the people who have supported them. My full time job is working for a major bank who has toyed with RH. We use it sometimes to save for the cost of licensing over Sun. Now there is no realizable savings over RH. Recently we have stopped deploying new boxes and are also looking for other long term solutions.
I don't think that there is a good answer to which distro to use. We started on slackware some years ago and switched to RH because it was solid and easy to use. The other problem is there are too many distros so which one will stay around the longest and which one will be able to offer you cost effective support.
We're still debating what the long term strategy is. At this time we don't know if we will continue to use RH into 2005.
MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE IS THAT WE ONLY WANT UPDATES FOR 9.0 AND NOT NEW FUNCTIONALITY SO WHY NOT CONTINUE THE SUPPORT FOR CORE SECURITY UPDATES (PRIMARILY KERNEL BASED UPDATES). That's not asking a lot.
Gary
-----Original Message----- From: JC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: RedHat cutting off errata support, Alternatives?
RedHat has announced that it will no longer be providing (free) errata support for RH9 ( http://news.osdir.com/article323.html ) Fedora seems a little too bleeding edge for my tastes... I was thinking about Debian... My questions to the list are these:
1.) What would you suggest migrating to?
2.) What caveats should I know about with Debian? I know there were quite a few with RH, I.E. UTF-8 screwing everything and it's brother up with perl, etc, etc...
3.) Maybe that you'd stay with RH9. Why?
As always, any insight that anybody could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, J.C. Blouin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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