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Re: RedHat support changes

Art -- I have been happy using gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/) as my linux distribution. It allows you to select and install only the components you need (i.e., I don't have gnome/gtk or kde/qt installed on my servers). This minimizes the security patching you need to do and stray dependencies. The gentoo community generally releases security patches as soon a they are announced. 

--Bill Noon
Northeast Regional Climate Center
Cornell University

On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 04:19 PM, 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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