Re: [PLUG] RH Enterprise Linux Purchasing Woes

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 03:46 PM, Jason Wertz wrote:

> Sorry, just had to vent. Any thoughts?

Yes, but I don't know if I can fully disclose them at this time.

I can say this: there are good alternatives out there.  You want a 
stable distro with a long development cycle, easy upgrades and a price 
that your dept can afford without strange PO requirements?  Good, I 
thought you might.  Check out Debian GNU/Linux.  For a variety of 
reasons, I've been playing with it and think with a little bit of 
creative scripting it could be a viable alternative to RHAS or RHES in 
many cases.

You already said you were looking at Debian so I don't think I need to 
say anymore beyond further encouraging you.

I'm presently using RHAS at work and feeling like it's not all it's 
cracked up to be (for the $$$).

Chris Hedemark
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