i have been used RH for over 5 yrs and some of our server are going to RH AS and most of our workstations are moving to fedora
i have fedora servers in testing right now(PG 7.4 and 7.3) and have not seen any major problems
as for extended rh9,7.. support you can check out http://www.tummy.com/Software/krud
i have used them and i love the cd based idea
jeff
Richard Huxton wrote:
On Friday 09 January 2004 03:13, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
Is there going to be a RedHat 10? Or are we all supposed
to choose a path of RH Enterprise vs Fedora Core? I have
about 10 to 20 Redhat 9 machines in dev/qa/production that
I'm trying to plan the futures for.
It's RH-Enterprise/Fedora from here in, the bonus should be that you know where you stand with RH-Ent. I can't see availability being a problem, Fedora is going to have all the standard packages available and even in the worst case scenario will be around for a few years. RedHat can't afford *not* to support their Enterprise product, so that's about as safe a choice as you can get.
The question is whether you want free, but rapidly changing with no corporate support, 350 USD/EUR per year with regular patches, 1500 USD/EUR per year with support too. RedHat have some documents on their site describing the differences.
There has also been talk about third-parties providing security-only patches to older RedHat versions, but I don't know if any of these has/will happen.
In your case, I'm guessing it depends on your budget. If your machines cost 5000 each then I'm guessing 350 p.a. isn't too bad. On the other hand if they are cheap 700 EUR white-boxes, the price might not look so good.
They seem to be your options - the beauty is, if you don't like them you can always switch to another distribution.
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