Thoughts about James' Updates on Legacy list

[Michael Mansour]

> Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So do I. See centos at centos.org via 
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> 
> There's also an announce I subscribe to. I'm probably going to hop
> from FC2 to CentOS one day.
> 
> Lots of really good folk over there.

I can't agree more. Personally I made the jump to Scientific Linux
(http://www.scientificlinux.org) which is just another recompiled release of
RHEL. It's just much easier to have someone else manage package updates and
security fixes for you, and give you back the time to get on with life :)

Michael.