Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-04-04 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Folks, The enterprise Vs Free software releases is getting more interesting area for me for the discussion. I got overwhelimg response from many people which cleared many doubt for me and probably same for others. Thanks everyone for their reply! Like i said we have Redhat SuSE subscription,

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-04-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:39 +0100, Yashpal Nagar wrote: [...] Like i said we have Redhat SuSE subscription, similarly we do have mysql support subscription. Now it emerged recently mysql releases new mysql - server 5.0.38. Now if we install mysql pathes or releases does it break anything

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-31 Thread Anand Shankar
On 3/29/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, it is not a good idea to mix and match packages, even if they are from distributions that are apparently related, e.g., RHEL and Fedora. That is because the two distributions will undoubtedly have a different set of packages, at

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-31 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: horror, when configuring vsftpd on Ubuntu found the default directory is /home/ftp!!! Now how do I ??? I want to use FDS but my box is Ubuntu, so should I steal another box for Fedora/FDS sake?? You can convert the static partitioning system to LVM

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-31 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
- Original Message From: Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] It happened to me recently. Was using vsftpd in my intranet on a Fedora box. Decided to try out Ubuntu-64bit on a new box. So while formatting the box decided to give /var partition a larger size. To my horror, when configuring

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-29 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 3/29/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:16 +0100, Yashpal Nagar wrote: [...] What i want to know here is, as a practice should one go ahead and install (on top of RHEL/SUSE) such updates/packages from Fedora or Opensuse, whenever they become available? if

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-29 Thread Shiv
Mahesh T. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take heart, dear. What he said is that it is difficult to fild people asking RH for support. He did not say that it difficult to find people who purchased RHEL. Hope I did not get him wrong. Thats exactly what I mean!!! People buy the subscription but

[ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Hi there, As we know Redhat and SUSE few major vendors for enterprise class Linux distribution do also have their free/community driven distributions like Fedors Opensuse. Now lately we have noticed that few softwares releases become rapidly available from Fedora, Opensuse rather than

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Harish Pillay
What i want to know here is, as a practice should one go ahead and install (on top of RHEL/SUSE) such updates/packages from Fedora or Opensuse, whenever they become available? if yes what could happen to the server when you apply service packs which lately become available from Redhat or

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Shiv
Harish Pillay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:You should keep your commercially supported distribution to track what is being made available via the support channels (RHN for example for Red Hat) so that you can benefit from official support. Its hard to find someone who has bought Redhat ES or AS call

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shiv wrote: Its hard to find someone who has bought Redhat ES or AS call them up for support. Oh dear you just broke my heart :( but why do you think it is hard to find someone who has purchased a subscription for RHEL ? - -- You see things;

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but why do you think it is hard to find someone who has purchased a subscription for RHEL ? Take heart, dear. What he said is that it is difficult to fild people asking RH for support. He did not say that it difficult to find people who

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:16 +0100, Yashpal Nagar wrote: [...] What i want to know here is, as a practice should one go ahead and install (on top of RHEL/SUSE) such updates/packages from Fedora or Opensuse, whenever they become available? if yes what could happen to the server when you apply