RHEL WS?

Bevan C. Bennett bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Tue Jan 20 22:51:55 UTC 2004


Preston Crawford wrote:
> They're bent on pushing RHEL Server, so the message is that you can't use anything but that as a server. Or that you "shouldn't" or whatever. Either way it's a confusing mess

It's not really that bad. It's all about support and tuning and 
compatability testing.

Redhat isn't testing those server packages with the particular 
combination of packages and configuration that makes up WS. You could 
install them yourself, but you'd be responsible for doing your own 
tuning and support.

If you want to run those services in an environment where redhat has 
tested and tuned them for you, and is willing to support you if you have 
problems, then you need to update to at least ES.

It's incredibly silly to use WS as a server, because you're only paying 
for (and will only receive) support on the non-server portion of it. If 
you want support you should pay for ES. If you don't care about getting 
redhat support you might as well run something free, like Fedora.





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