On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 22:11, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:22:29PM +1100, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:04, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Manuel Tejada wrote:
> > >
> > > > By the way, what does mean RHEL3?
> > >
> > > "Red Hat Entreprise Linux", a commercial Linux distribution (meaning you
> > > shouldn't use it unless you pay for it).
> >
> > No, it means you won't get support unless you pay for it, and if you get
> > support for a single machine in your organisation using RHEL, you must
> > get support for all of them.
>
> It's exactly the same thing. Using an unsupported operating system is
> only a matter of time before some cracker 0wnz j00. Of course, you
> could build your own security updates, but it will be a very expensive
> thing to do. In this situation one should really consider switching to
> another distribution, like, say, White Box (which is built from the
> SRPMs of RHEL), or any other of the big ones. Or go with some *BSD.
Huh? Or just use Fedora Core, which is what the consumer grade RedHat
distro has become...
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