Re: Converting from Linux

From: Barton L. Phillips (bartonphillips_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 12/03/03

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    Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:04:35 GMT

    Red Hat will continue to support and update its Enterprise version. The
    enterprise version is intended for IT use and will have a slower (and
    hopefully) more stable release schedule. Enterprise is a little more
    expensive but for a "real" business it is not really very expensive. Red
    Hat is discontinuing its desktop line which ends with Red Hat 9.0, from
    here on the desktop is Fedora.

    I like FreeBSD but as I said if you are familiar with Red Hat then
    Enterprise for IT and Fedora for desktop is probably an easier route.

    Jens Kaalby Thomsen wrote:
    > Hi
    >
    > Thanks for all the replies!
    >
    >> I like FreeBSD but if you are familiar with RedHat you may want to try
    >> Fedora rather than taking the plunge into BSD. BSD is quite different
    >> and takes a bit of time to learn all the differences.
    >
    >
    > Just a comment to this (slightly off-topic I suppose):
    > As of today I find it very difficult to judge how stable fedora will be
    > on a production server which NEEDS to run 24x7. Two-three new versions
    > will be out every year, and as I understand only updates for the latest
    > version will be made (for a short period of time). On the desktop ....
    > fine, I will stick with fedora.
    >
    > However, it will all depend on the developer community supporting
    > fedora. It is just very difficult to know what is going to happen. Since
    > I am already an IRIX, Solaris and OpenBSD user FreeBSD is a serious
    > alternative, though I must admit that I would like to stick to RH on my
    > servers (as you are implying it IS the OS I know best).
    >
    > Jens
    >

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