Migration options
Bill Fung
ccbill at ust.hk
Mon Dec 29 08:45:07 UTC 2003
Thanks Rodolfo,
I have read the page, but somewhat don't know the exact fee of site
licence...
site licence = base package + fixed option OR base package + unlimited
option
If that is the case, then site licence would be more expensive than
individual subscription ($50 for AS, $25 for WS) which is unreasonable.
Since our university is under severe budget cut, the price may be
unacceptable under our current situation. Btw, I have used RedHat linux
for 6 years. Anyway, Thanks for your kind suggestion.
Bill
HKUST
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 02:01 12/29/2003, you wrote:
>
>> I am working in a university and I am maintaining several servers
>> installed with RedHat 6.2, 7.2, 9. Since RedHat will not give support
>> at all these version soon, I am considering whether to go for fedora
>> or rhel 3 or other linux distribution (eg. debian).
>
>
> I'm afraid I cannot help you answer your specific questions very well
> yet, as I have not had the chance to play with Fedora much yet myself.
> However, I can emphatically recommend this: SWITCH TO RHEL 3.
>
> Since you are a university, you can qualify for Red Hat's academic
> pricing. Get the details here:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/education/
>
> The basics are that you get RHEL-AS for $50/year per server and
> RHEL-WS for $25/year per desktop. If you have more than 40 or 50
> machines, you can get a site subscription which will allow you lots
> and lots of AS and WS licenses for a flat fee which IIRC is around
> $2,500 annually. This academic pricing makes RHEL3 unbeatable in my view.
>
> Brief comments on your Fedora questions:
>
>> 1) Could I put it into simple words, Fedora is just like RedHat 6.2,
>> 7.... 9, except it doesn't have any further rpm patch update from
>> redhat? And rhel 3 is a continuation of rhel 2.
>
>
> Fedora is what you would have expected to see as Red Hat Linux 10.
> Patches can be obtained via up2date, yum, or apt (all three are
> supported), and the patches are provided by "the community". Of course
> this community still includes a bunch of people who work at Red Hat,
> but Red Hat, Inc. does not officially provide support for Fedora.
> RHEL3 is close to Red Hat Linux 9, I think.
>
>> 4) I am also serious considering migration the RedHat servers to
>> other linux distribution such as debian. But I think the migration
>> would be difficult. Any suggestion or comment?
>
>
> Depends on how much you know about Linux in general, and how much time
> you have spent learning Red Hat specifically. Switching will take some
> time and effort and learning; figure out how much you think that will
> be, compare to the specific benefits you expect to get from switching,
> and do the math.
>
>> 5) a stupid question, is Fedora as stable as RedHat 9? I think so.
>
>
> Yes, I think so. But at this point my information is mostly
> second-hand, from reading most of the thousands of posts made to
> fedora-list since the launch. My own experience with Fedora, as
> mentioned above, is limited but has been very good. I would not expect
> you to have problems with apache, innd, and perl, or any other
> strongly-mainstream products like those.
>
>
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