- To: "Arthur A. Person" <person@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: RedHat support changes
- From: Bill Noon <noon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:00:43 -0500
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 beeither to buy support (which apparently will be $150 per desktop, more forservers) or switch to another vendor. We will probably be forced to switch to another vendor, at least formany of our desktops, because of the costs involved. I'd be interested inany opinions anyone has as to preferences for other Linux distributionsand why. Also, are there any gotcha's with the other distro's as far asrunning 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
- References:
- RedHat support changes
- From: Arthur A. Person
- RedHat support changes