Fedora vs RHEL

[Mike Dwiggins]

OK, let me sum up my situation if I can without busting some 
confidentiality agreements.

We are a small Network Engineering company mostly we specialize in 
Enterprise Wireless in support of Inventory Control systems.  Our 
outward facing network has been Windows Server in various generations!

We have had some serious security problems due to holes in Windows.

We also have a Teaching Lab were we teach new hires networking 
fundamentals.  I have hidden the Lab behind a set of CentOS servers for 
several years and we have had no Problems.  In the Lab I have 9 racks 
with various Routers (mostly Cisco) and several Enterprise Wireless 
Controllers (Motorola and Aruba mostly).  I hide this whole operation 
behind one of my CentOS servers serving as the router and DHCP for the 
whole place!

My Boss has a Brother-In-Law (BIL) who had a terrible experience in his 
business (no way related to ours).  The problem was the BIL not the OS 
but, convince the 2nd in command at our place of that!  Yes, it is the 
Boss's wife!

Thus I am having to sell to their level of Knowledge and my well working 
Lab just does not penetrate her defense of her Brothers skills.  It must 
have been the OS, not Her Brother!

I have taken some legitimate hits here!  Had the situation been 
different!  I was just trying to get a quick and dirty equivalence to 
use as a selling point.

I use an older version of Fedora at home because I like to leave work at 
work a LOT, OK I am lazy!

The full intent is to get to a RHEL shop and have it settle in place for 
about two years before I retire!

Mike D.

On 4/12/2013 4:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 12.04.2013 13:05, schrieb Mike Dwiggins:
>> On 4/12/2013 3:49 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> to make it clear, if i would be your boss and you try to sell me
>>> Fedora 16 i would fire you for two possible reasons reasons to
>>> prevent future damage to the company
>>>
>>> * you try to sell me a EOL system by knowing and ignoring this
>>> * you do not know that it is EOL what shows that you are not qualified
>> At this I can only say that you don't know my Boss!  He moved into this field from a related field (Telcomm) and
>> knows just enough to be dangerous!
>>
>> To him EOL would be a selling point because it would eliminate changes!
> boah now you sound really really dumb
>
> RHEL/CENTOS IS THE WAY TO GO BECAUSE IT IS DESIGEND FOR ENTERPRISE
> AND NO API/ABU-CHANGES OVER TEN YEARS AND INSTALL A EOL-OS BECAUSE
> IT DOES NO LONGER GET CHANGES IS COMPLETLY IDIOTIC
>
> after the whole discussions there are only two options:
>
> * you are only a troll
> * you are far way from the knowledge a serious sys-admin needs AND learning-resistent
>
>
>
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