On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:57:08PM -0500, Kent Borg wrote:
So what are these new distributions? Other than costing more, is ES 8.1? Is WS a workstation install of ES? (AS seems to be former Advanced Server.)
ES is *NOT* 8.1. AS really is the former AS. ES is essentially AS without the clustering pieces. WS is the workstation install of AS/ES but has most of the server components removed.
.. which is still based on Red Hat 7.2. With 8.1 well on it's way, the technology is nearing 1.5 years dated. According to a CNET story, Enterprise (AS/ES/WS) 3.0 is scheduled to be released later this year. I'm curious as to whether it will be an Bluecurve/8.x derivitive, or still based on 7.x architecture (2.1 is based on RH 7.2). Reason for the curiosity is because Red Hat stated that anything certified (i.e. Oracle, etc.) to run on one version will run on another. Phoebe testers all discovered that they changed a threading model which broke alot of legacy apps (w/o passing the kernel env. variable first), but opened the doors for improvements in future applications. Would such changes be implemented in the Enterprise model?
I would expect that most businesses will want to go to ES for their typical mail and DNS servers and is what I'll be doing with my 10+ Linux systems at work (currently running from 6.1 to 7.3). A few enterprises will want the clustering pieces and put AS in the mix. Those who are rolling out production Linux desktops may want AW.
I don't think I'd want to deploy Production Desktop Linux systems based on AW until it adopts the more IMHO user friendly Bluecurve theme. I find 8.x to be far more beginner friendly than any 7.x distro.
And as for production servers, I tend to prefer the more leading (but not bleeding) edge versions (Sendmail 8.12, Apache 2.x, etc.) largely for their improved feature set. You won't find that immediately in the Enterprise versions.
If 3.0 is more 8.x like, I think I'd consider deploying it. Until then, I'll stick with my once per year upgrading. Kickstart makes that simple enough anyway, especially if you maintain similar hardware across your network.
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