[ale] Current Red Hat users - moving on?

[Bob Toxen]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:16:47PM -0500, Yu, Jerry wrote:
> can u buy one copy of RHEL and install all over places within the company,
> sorta a site license?
Yes, in my professional non-attorney opinion.  It's Open Source RPMs
that it downloads.  I created a script to then install them on a list
of other systems via scp.  This was the solution of one of my clients.
He also decided (10 minutes ago) that his new Secure FTP server will
run Slackware.

Another will have me download the source of Sendmail, Apache, from the
original Open Source sites and build and install.  I'll probably convert
my one Red Hat system to Slackware or Mandrake.

Bob Toxen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D. Hirsch [mailto:mhirsch at nubridges.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:07 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Current Red Hat users - moving on?


> On Sunday 07 December 2003 03:20 pm, Larry Richardson wrote:
> > For the Red Hat users - are you going to switch distributions or go with
> > Fedora?  If you are switching, which distro are you selecting and why?

> I switched to Mandrake a few years ago at home.  I'm still pretty happy with

> it--I hope they make it our of bancrupcy :-).  I even bought a copy.

> At work, I will probably stick with Fedora for the medium term, but we'll 
> probably end up with a commercially supported version someday.  Mandrake or 
> SuSE, I would guess.  The IT department is not interested in paying more for

> RHEL than they pay for XP.  (Yes, I know it has more functionality).

> Michael