On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 18:22, Kerry Cox wrote: > We are currently in the process of looking at alternative solutions to > our Red Hat servers. We have been pleased with Red Hat and its > performance in the past, but the current licensing situation has us > looking for a new solution. > Anyone tried out any of the RHEL AS3 derivatives? I have tested Tao > Linux, Whitebox and CentOS. I have been particularly pleased with Fermi > Linux. It appears to be the best choice so far. > I have been working with a single copy of RHEL AS3 and compiling all > updates from source RPMS. The derivatives are fairly true to the > original. > We have tested Debian, FreeBSD and SuSE, but we need to keep everything > consistent with the programming and coding done so far. > Management wants to start migrating everything to SuSE on account of our > current agreements with Novell. > Anyone have any input on the matter? Anyone leaning heavily to a new > distro or spinoff?
Whitebox linux is probably the most popular distro, and it's built just like you are building from RHEL srpms. I believe that although RedHat will not sell you RHEL without a service contract, RHEL can be used without a service contract freely on any of your machines. You would just have to obtain RHEL from someone other than RedHat. You can't use the copy of RHEL that you have purchased from RedHat while the service contract is in force on another machine. A bit tricky but RHEL is still under the GPL (binary and source). I have not yet tried Whitebox, but it seems to be one the best bets right now. Michael > Thanks. > KJ -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
