Thoughts about James' Updates on Legacy list

[Josep L. Guallar-Esteve]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 11:21, James Kosin wrote:
> I'm not knocking RedHat, Fedora or Fedora-Legacy this is a good
> point.  But, some of us need more than just patches to get us by.
> I know, If you really want the latest, why not update to FC4...  The
> problem there is that this is a server.  I shouldn't have to strip the
> system down and rebuild it every 6-months or so.  

Exactly. This is why Fedora Core is not recomended for production server 
usage. For home server, sure, works good like anty other distributution. But 
for enterprise-grade server... no way.

> I also don't have 
> the money or budget to spend lots of money on RedHat ES.

Then I strongly recommed you to try out CentOS. CentOS is the "free as in 
beer" version of RHEL. CentOS is the result of recompiling the freely 
available sourfes of RHEL.

There are others (WhiteBox...) that do the same. In my experience, the 
distribution with more community following and dedication is CentOS. 

No, I do not work for CentOS. I use some CentOS side-by-side with RHEL. And I 
find CentOS to be as good as RHEL. After all, CentOS is binary-compatible 
with RHEL. Even Oracle installs fine on CentOS.

> Also, my time is money $$$.  I can't spend 2-days to a week debugging
> and setting up the server again.... and again... and again...

Then go for CentOS.



Cheers,
Josep
-- 
Josep L. Guallar-Esteve - IT Department - Eastern Radiologists, Inc.
Systems and PACS Administration  http://www.easternrad.com
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