RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Mark A. Hoover wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:24:16 -0600
> > From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> >
> > So you get essentially a free upgrade to the Enterprise line. Whether or
> > not you agree, it is at least clear that Red Hat attempted to compensate
> > you (with something that they consider even better than what you already
> > had) and did not try to "rip you off."
>
> While not the original poster, I would argue that depending on your use of
> RedHat 9 (or earlier) that RHWS is not an upgrade as the last time I
> looked at the RHWS package list it did not include Apache, Bind, or many
> of the other common server daemons.

Includes apache, sendmail, samba, nfs.  Does not include amanda-server,
arptables_jf, bind, caching-nameserver, dhcp, freeradius, inews, inn,
krb5-server, netdump-server, openldap-servers, pxe, quagga, radvd, rarpd,
redhat-config-bind, redhat-config-netboot, tftp-server, tux, vsftpd,
ypserv.

Some things are just plain gone (mailman, some *-devel packages, and some
others), and some have been moved to the Extras channel (SQL servers,
e.g.).

Most of the not-included ones are not really necessary for a workstation
(although I'd miss bind and caching-nameserver on my laptop).

If you want server capability and you don't want to pay RHES prices or get
RHES service (and you're not an academic), then you want Fedora Core or
Whitebox or one of the other RHEL clones.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs