Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 13:06 schrieb Bernhard Reiter: > Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 08:59 schrieb Ralf S. Engelschall: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > c) Long term maintenance ideas regarding GNU/Linux Enterprise > > > distributions. Status: I probably will have to resend the email. I have attached my original email text, (If it was stuck in the moderation or thrown away, I suggest moving from Petidomo to Mailman and have a few volunteers that screen stuck emails from non-subscribers.) > > but in general we usually support those > > distributions for which inside the OpenPKG Foundation we have both a > > valid license, a hardware (physical or virtual) and at least someone > > who maintains this setup. So, for instance RHEL3 we kicked out as our > > license expired, nobody donated a renewal and the underlying machine was > > already more reasonably used with RHEL4. > > Good to know: So if we get distributions to get you a license, > you or somebody else finds a machine, and we find somebody to keep the > installation going, OpenPKG would support it. > I could at least ask RedHat and we could look for contacts within Novell > and Mandriva. Note that there is some competition between OpenPKG and the operating system vendors. This is a problem for customers. They want to have a tested Linux (the kernel) and core technologies (like libc, filesystem) with certification for a hardware. Now RedHat, Mandriva or Novell are charging for this _and_ the applications, like Postfix. So if I buy Redhat and then use OpenPKG, I am paying for something that I do not use, and would like to pay OpenPKG for. Just additionally paying for OpenPKG makes this far more expensive of course. It is not easy to solve this. Bernhard
[ Email originally send (but might be stuck in moderation) From: Bernhard Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: openpkg-users@openpkg.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:29:07 +0200 Subject: Support for Enterprise GNU/Linux distributions? ] Hello OpenPKG Team and Users, to install a Kolab2 Server for customers, we recommend an enterprise host system for OpenPKG. This host system should have seen good quality control for the kernel, the c- and thread libraries and especially the filesystem. Security updates and reaction times should be garanteed, so I am considering different GNU/Linux enterprise vendors. E.g. SLES9, RHEL4, Mandriva Server 3 Only RHEL3 is getting close to be supported. It is listed as "obsolete" in OpenPKG 2.4. So does anyone run OpenPKG 2.4 on RHEL4? How far is fedora4 away from being supported? Does anyone run OpenPKG 2.4 on Mandriva Server 3.0? What are the differences between Mandrake 10.2 and Mandriva Server 3.0? Does it have a good chance of being supported? How are the experiences with SLES9 and the differences to Suse9.3? There is another aspect if thinking about support of OpenPKG and its release cycle planning: If RHEL3 is considered obsolete from the OpenPKG point of view, how does that relate to the long support periods of enterprise distributions. E.g. RHEL3 is supported fully to April 2006 and with security updates to 2010. http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ Suse and Mandriva also have long life cycles, e.g. 5 years. If OpenPKG once supported them, but only for a one OpenPKG minor release, this would be a drawback for OpenPKG. Is there a policy for how long to support a platform with OpenPKG. Best Regards, Bernhard -- www.kolab-konsortium.com
