releases from good known sources, and the easy update interface doesn't
hurt, as some of our people are not Linux-savvy at all. I have already been
looking at Debian and have been impressed (haven't looked at it in years),
however the fact that we're also EOL on our AntiVirus solution gives us more
problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:18 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: How to deal with RH 7/8/9 EOL [was: CF on Linux]
Josh Remus said:
> Just a question for those of you running CF on RH 7/8/9....What are
> you doing (if these are production servers) to deal with the
> End-Of-Life of these products? We're confronting this right now,
> although not for CF.
Of the firms I know of, there is only one where they worked with
RedHat (not even for CF) but the consensus there is: nothing.
It has been verified that the tool chain works so when the community
stops producing RPMs it is possible to get the patch for whatever
needs fixing and compile it. But that is not expected, because if the
issue is serious the community will produce RPMs, and if it is not
serious you can just ignore the patch.
Long term there will probably be a move to Debian. If you are willing
to invest a little bit in working with the community, community
support is just as good if not better as commercial support anyway
(with the possible exception of bugs that are boring and tedious to
fix, but then you can scratch your own itch).
Unless we are talking about mission critical, 'engineer onsite in 4
hours' support. But for that type of support you can get a specialized
consultancy firm.
Jochem
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