On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:22:29PM +1100, Stephen Robert Norris wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:04, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Manuel Tejada wrote: > > > > > By the way, what does mean RHEL3? > > > > "Red Hat Entreprise Linux", a commercial Linux distribution (meaning you > > shouldn't use it unless you pay for it). > > No, it means you won't get support unless you pay for it, and if you get > support for a single machine in your organisation using RHEL, you must > get support for all of them.
It's exactly the same thing. Using an unsupported operating system is only a matter of time before some cracker 0wnz j00. Of course, you could build your own security updates, but it will be a very expensive thing to do. In this situation one should really consider switching to another distribution, like, say, White Box (which is built from the SRPMs of RHEL), or any other of the big ones. Or go with some *BSD. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "We are who we choose to be", sang the goldfinch when the sun is high (Sandman) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
