[K12OSN] Dell Offers Enterprise Linux Operating System from Novell to Address Growing Market for Thin Clients

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we were getting support from Red Hat, and maybe we only went up to RH9
then switched to SUSE10

and the RPM issue is one of the reasons I haven't switched to Ubuntu
yet.

Bob

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Nils Breunese wrote:

> Bob wrote:
>
> > I own a small business and ran Red Hat from about 4.1 or so up to RH10
> > and then found FC less than usefull and RH enterprise way over our
> > heads technically and financiallly and switched to SUSE.  Am now
> > looking real close at Ubuntu but haven't made that commitment, yet.
> >
> > it almost seemed like Red Hat didn't want my business and yes we
> > bought full versions with support.
> >
> > just one persons experience, I appreciate everything Red Hat does to
> > support linux, I probably would not be using Linux today if it were
> > not for the efforts of Red Hat years ago, but since RH 10 it seems
> > they don't want my business anymore.
>
> I don't believe there ever was a Red Hat 10, right? I was wondering if
> CentOS wouldn't be a more logical OS to switch to when coming from Red
> Hat? Or are you getting SuSE with support? I actually kind of
> understand that a company might not want everybody's business. It
> might just make a whole lot more sense (business-wise) to concentrate
> on particular target audiences, although I have no idea if that was
> the case here.
>
> I do know that I have some investments in RPM and for that reason
> won't be switching to a DEB-based distro like Ubuntu for our servers
> any time soon. But it's a nice distro for the desktop and I use it
> quite frequently myself. But hey, that's nice thing about having a lot
> of distro's, right?
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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