Re: RedHat support changes

• To: "Arthur A. Person" <person@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: RedHat support changes
• From: Richard Massa <ramassa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:40:13 -0800
• Mail-followup-to: Richard Massa <ramassa@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Arthur A. Person" <person@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Before our server's hardware failed, ldm, gempak, and mcidas(-xcd) were all
running fine on a slackware box.

Richard

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:19:36PM -0500, Arthur A. Person wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> It was brought to my attention today that RedHat is apparently dropping
> support for it's free versions of Linux.  This leaves us (and I'm sure
> many of you) in a quandary as to what to do.  The options appear to be
> either to buy support (which apparently will be $150 per desktop, more for
> servers) or switch to another vendor.
> 
> We will probably be forced to switch to another vendor, at least for 
> many of our desktops, because of the costs involved.  I'd be interested in 
> any opinions anyone has as to preferences for other Linux distributions 
> and why.  Also, are there any gotcha's with the other distro's as far as 
> running the LDM and gempak are concerned?
> 
>                                     Thanks.
> 
>                                       Art.
> -- 
> Arthur A. Person
> Research Assistant, System Administrator
> Penn State Department of Meteorology
> email:  person@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, phone:  814-863-1563
> 

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