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Old 11-04-2003, 08:15 PM  
Eve
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Originally posted by TheSaint
Now that RedHat has exited the free Linux business, I am not exactly sure what to do. I have a plethora of Red Hat Linux servers for a half dozen mainstream and porn businesses.

I am basically a lazy fuck, and was attracted to the up2date system where I could automatically patch the servers weekly. I just have too many servers to be reading daily emails about security patches.

For the higher end servers. no problem. We have already started ordering RH Enterprise at $799 per year per server.

But for all my lower end servers, what now? Do I go with another Linux distro? FreeBSD? Os2 warp?

I really don't want to loose up2date. And I don't care if I am running the latest shit or not; I just want it stable and mindless to maintain and install.

What are you guys doing about the Red Hat mess?
Go debian, been around alot longer, completely GNU, has better tools than up2date (all you have to type to update ALL packages, if updates are available is 'apt get update'), (rpm's suck). If you want the best performance, go free/net bsd.
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