What else now besides Redhat ?
 

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?

Depends on what the servers do. Sometimes you need a hammer and sometimes you need a screwdriver.

Ok, I need a bulldozer.

Mandrake Linux

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.

FreeBSD *all* the way. Very simple to keep upto date, you could practically cron it once a week

mandrake blows
go for debian !

*shrug* Here you go...

http://linuxberg.inter.net.il/intern...view/9084.html

freebsd, or debian.

Maybe I'm out of the loop on this... but I wasn't aware that RedHat had plans of stopping their free linux distros? Sure, they're offering higher end Enterprise versions of Linux for big business, but as far as I knew they still do offer the plain vanilla flavor of RedHat without all the enterprise bells and whistles.

Also.. one other option for an "up2date" alternative is a program called "AutoUpdate". Works like a champ for updates using any RedHat mirror of your choice -- and no subscription to the RedHat network needed :) Here's the link: http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/

Somebody please verify the whole "RedHat has exited the free Linux business" thing if you have any info.

Thanks

Yep, sorry it is true.

All red Hat Linux products have reached end of life with the last being 9.0 ending in first qtr 03.

If you want support and security updates you have to go to Enterprise, its $799 a server minimum - I just bought a bunch of them, and that is PER YEAR.

Wow... definitely a bummer. I've been using RedHat for nearly 6yrs now, and have grown quite used to it. Do you happen to have a link to a press release or anything from RedHat on this issue?

Usually when the OS version starts getting old, the hardward of the server starts getting old as well. So might not be such a bad thing.. probably be ready for new machines next year anyway.

Still sucks though :(

and sometimes you need to stick with the subject at hand :1orglaugh

There's a free unsupported Redhat OS called Fedora:

http://fedora.redhat.com/

Fedora will be the testing-ground for Redhat Enterprise.

You can do up2date style updates via apt-get:

http://danhendricks.com/site.content...et-redhat.html

Redhat got greedy. REALLY greedy.

I was about to start a thread just like this.

I have heard Debian and Mandrake are the next big linuxes. I was thinking about moving everything to freebsd. Not sure what to do - but freebsd seems to be the better option.

i saw this coming since the beginning, that's why i never really was a big fan of suckhat. it was always a very commercial product, this was inevitable.