Sophos Anti Virus

[Nermin Celik]

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge, highlighting different issues and
the links.

Have a nice weekend.
N

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:48 PM, steve <steve at lonetwin.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 05/14/2010 10:28 AM, Nermin Celik wrote:
>
>> [...snip...]
>>
>> Technical argument(s):
>>   Technicans say: Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not Fedora
>>   Me: confused. Not whole heartedly convinced, hence have posted a
>> message here.
>>
>> "Since fedora and redhat are almost the same" shouldn't Sophos Anti
>> Virus be also supported by Fedora?
>>
>>
> 'Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux' is just a different way of saying
> 'we have tested this only on RHEL and nothing breaks'.
>
> Since RHEL is more or less based on the release of Fedora that was current
> at the time of the RHEL release, it is pretty likely that Sophos would work
> on Fedora too.
>
> In any case, don't be too averse to letting them install RHEL on your
> system. The advantages of doing that are:
>
> a. RHEL is much more stable and well supported than Fedora
> b. Even in the event that something does break you get to complain to both
> your technicians (perhaps loudly) as well as Red Hat and also are entitled
> to a resolution of your bug (unlike Fedora where bug fixing is a volunteer
> effort).
> c. A lot of the Fedora packages that are not normally available in RHEL are
> available in EPEL:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> here's a bit about RHEL:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
>
> Remember, officially Fedora is not recommended for production systems.
>
> hth,
> cheers,
> - steve
>
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