Re: just got screwed by red hat...

["Dave Gavin" <user=1149@nabble.blu.org>]

 Steve, 

   Take a look at CentOS (http://www.centos.org) - it tracks the Red   
Hat Enterprise distributions and has a very good support community. I   
use it on several production servers alongside a couple of RHEL   
licensed servers and I prefer the CentOS environment. I've gotten   
quicker responses from the CentOS guys than for similar problems   
reported to Red Hat, plus you don't have to go through multiple   
layers to get to someone who actually knows anything. 

  Good Luck with whatever distro you choose, 
  Dave 

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On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Stephen Adler wrote: 

> Well... Times are a changing... Red Hat provided a very nice   
> service by which you could get up to 5 servers registered on the   
> red hat network for automatic updates of their enterprise based   
> distribution. It cost about $300/year which I thought was quite   
> reasonable. I just got off the phone with Red Hat who tell me that   
> they have stopped the service and I would have to pay something   
> like $350/machine/year to keep them subscribed to the red hat   
> network. :( 
> 
> The business that I'm in requires a bit of attention being payed to   
> the state of my severs and I have always been a bit hesitant to use   
> Fedora, or Debian or some other "community" supported distribution.   
> I wanted to buy into an enterprise level linux distribution which I   
> could count on being well supported. I understand that most   
> distributions are well supported and this may be just a prejudice   
> on my side. Be that as it may, I want to look around for another   
> alternative. Basically commercial support for linux. Does anyone   
> have any experience with Novell and Suse? This is the only other   
> alternative that I can think of. Is there another distribution   
> which provide commercial support? This would me switching my 4   
> servers over to Suse which is no mean feat, and I do like Fedora a   
> lot, and wish I could keep my system's red hat based, but ... Times   
> are a changing... 
> 
> Cheers. Steve. 
> 
> 
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