Fedora on servers .

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:47:08PM -0600, Brad Alpert wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 23:43 +0000, Paul Flanders wrote:
> > The "legacy" 15-18 month business is a bit worrying especially if
> > the FC versions cycle out very quickly. I may look at RH Enterprise but
> > there is a cost to it. I manage over 50 RH servers and i really dont
> > like the idea of upgrading them all to often especially when so much
> > seems to break between versions.

> I was in a similar situation.  Whitebox Enterprise Linux did the trick
> for me.  WBEL is RHEL 3.0, without the branding, and with excellent
> updating capability.

Tao Linux is another good candidate along the same lines at WBEL.
Centos is another I believe.

These projects all have similar goals:
- Full RHEL compability
- Updates within a day or so of Red Hat providing updates
- removal of trademarks

They get awfully close.  There is a slim chance that some screwy
software may break (things like /etc/redhat-release doesn't contain the
exact verbage they're looking for) but in general, everything that works
on RHEL works on these.  

You don't get support from Red Hat (naturally) but if you're looking at
Fedora as a possible migration path from RHL 9, you're after community
support anyway.

I ran Tao for about 6 months alongside my home RHEL system and was
impressed by Tao - it does exactly what's advertised.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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