On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:16:08 -0500, gp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if I hate Red Hat now what is best least cost > alternative. FC3 is free I guess. I was the guy who > bought RH 2.1 Enterprise and never got to use > it imagine the waste.
I don't know about hating redhat :). it's just a matter of seeing if their goals and pricing are compatible with yours :). with the new pricing, *i* wouldn't go with redhat, but you might, if you work at a big company where support, handholding and the security of having someone to sue is more important than a few thousand $ a year. first thing to ask is, do you have enterprise applications that absolutely require redhat. e.g., SAP or oracle or similar. if you do, you should either stay with redhat (upgrade to the latest enterprise version and don't expose those boxes to the world, use cheaper boxes with no important services running on them for exposing to the net) or use whitebox or similar (built from the redhat SRPMs but with different logos, strings, etc), so functionally similar to RH but free. if you just need a regular linux box for regular linux services (nothing particularly picky running there) then i'd say go for an easier to configure linux. for me that's mandrake. but then that's only because i haven't tried SuSe yet. there might be other easy to configure server boxes out there, but i'm familiar only with mandrake and suse. the other easy to configure distributions i'm familiar with tend to be for desktop deployment. good luck. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.sni.ph [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Mene sakhet ur-seveh -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
