Thank you all for sharing your knowledge, highlighting different issues and the links.
Have a nice weekend. N On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:48 PM, steve <st...@lonetwin.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On 05/14/2010 10:28 AM, Nermin Celik wrote: > >> [...snip...] >> >> Technical argument(s): >> Technicans say: Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not Fedora >> Me: confused. Not whole heartedly convinced, hence have posted a >> message here. >> >> "Since fedora and redhat are almost the same" shouldn't Sophos Anti >> Virus be also supported by Fedora? >> >> > 'Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux' is just a different way of saying > 'we have tested this only on RHEL and nothing breaks'. > > Since RHEL is more or less based on the release of Fedora that was current > at the time of the RHEL release, it is pretty likely that Sophos would work > on Fedora too. > > In any case, don't be too averse to letting them install RHEL on your > system. The advantages of doing that are: > > a. RHEL is much more stable and well supported than Fedora > b. Even in the event that something does break you get to complain to both > your technicians (perhaps loudly) as well as Red Hat and also are entitled > to a resolution of your bug (unlike Fedora where bug fixing is a volunteer > effort). > c. A lot of the Fedora packages that are not normally available in RHEL are > available in EPEL: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > here's a bit about RHEL: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux > > Remember, officially Fedora is not recommended for production systems. > > hth, > cheers, > - steve > > -- > random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ > what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ >
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