We use Redhat on some of our systems and do exactly what Symeon says. We get support for the first year and then drop it once the system is stable. In the case of Domino, the IBM support people answer Redhat questions as well. On less critical systems Ubuntu works well. You can buy Ubuntu support just like Redhat. > From: John Thompson > I'm not going to revert to RHEL 5.7 because I'm afraid, and then in > two years have to convert to RHEL 6.x because Red Hat stopped > supporting it, and have to go through all of this nonsense again.
Tony >>Few people will admit that a decade ago they dumped a commercial OS like >>Sun, SCO, AIX, or Windows precisely because Linux was Free, and separately >>Open Source. "Somehow" because of those factors, the idea was that we would >>never again have to suffer the whims of the cathedral, as the bazaar would >>provide in bounty all the code changes required for the common good and of >>all. Symeon >>>Yes but there is linux and there is linux - redhat is a commercial operating >>>system with a full support model - you can always go the fedora route if you >>>want to browse the bazaar. Actually many people only take the first year >>>support from redhat - after that there is plenty of bazaar activity for >>>redhat so you can go ahead and update many parts. The difficulty then would >>>be updating the kernel, you may as well then go the fedora route at that >>>>point - or subscribe to the latest redhat, or take your pick of linux distro Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
