[ale] Fedora and RHN?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 06 November 2003 04:40 pm, Jay Finch wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:49:56AM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
> >> > Personally, I am now looking for a new *nix distro to run my servers
> >> > on.  I've been a supporter of Redhat for my server solutions
> >> > for a while
> >> > now, but $179/year minimum is too rich for me, sad to say.
> >>
> >> Debian...
> >
> > Question.  How is Fedora Core 1 any different from, say, RedHat Linux 9?
> >
> > People are complaining about how Redhat isn't supporting non-enterprise
> > users any more, bla bla bla.. but.. they didn't support Joe Random
> > Downloader anyway.  If you wanted support from RH you had to pay for it
> > before, be it in the form of a boxed set or a commercial/enterprise
> > arrangement or whatever.
> >
> > If you were already paying RH money, you'll keep paying 'em money.  If
> > you weren't paying 'em money before, you don't have to pay 'em a dime to
> > continue receiving the same level of support they always provided -- ie,
> > none.  In short, nothing has changed.
> >
> > What has changed from the user's perspective?  s/RedHat/Fedora/g
> > That's it.
>
> The biggest loss, in my opinion, is access to the RHN - I kept all my
> packages updated using RHN, and that loss (since I use RH in production
> servers) is the biggest blow to me.
>
> Are there other programs out there that perform the same functions as RHN?
>  I must confess I haven't looked very hard for them since RHN suited my
> needs so perfectly.

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It's a subscription, but reasonably priced.

Michael