Proper ettiquette for posting messages
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Wed Jan 7 21:01:01 UTC 2004
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:26:19 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at Weiss.name>
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Proper ettiquette for posting messages
> Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Tom Mitchell wrote:
<snip>
> The sad thing is that I had my boss convinced to get rid of all of our
> aging NT4 domain controllers and file servers, and switch to RH9 running
> samba. Now, fedora changes too rapidly to use as a server, and we don't
> have the cash for RHEL. So it looks like we're stuck with NT4 for awhile.
> *sigh*
>
> I was even wearing him down about linux on the desktop, but now that RHL
> is no longer an option, my bosses postion is basically "if we're gonna
> have to pay that much for a desktop os (RHEL/WS) then we may as well stick
> with one that we know (windows)".
>
> RHEL/WS Basic edition is $169. WinXP Pro upgrade is $169.99. What with
> having to re-educate all of our users, etc, there's just no way. Oh,
> well. *sigh*
>
> Ben
Check out some of these for a server OS:
White Box Enterprise Linux - http://whiteboxlinux.org/index.html
Tao Linux - http://taolinux.org/
cAos or CentOS - http://caosity.org/
They have different pluses/minuses, but all are related to RHEL.
I like WBEL but opinions vary. Might help with the *sigh*s :)
None of the RH-derived variants is likely to be good for your Windoze
users - not very well-rated as a desktop OS. Xandros, Lycoris, SuSE,
Mandrake, and Lindows [if you're not afraid of running as root :( ]
have all gotten better reviews in that area. Good luck with your
convincing your boss.
Phil Schaffner
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