[ale] Fedora and RHN?

[walter Sams]

I am new this list and am looking for some pointers and possibly some
physical assistance with migrating my RH9 network to another
distribution, most likely Mandrake 9.2.

The reason is this business with RH trying to force me to buy the
2500.00 server program and pay 179/yr/machine for continued access to
updates and patches. I dumped M$ for this same approach and I can dump
RH also.

If someone has converted RH to Mandrake I would appreciate insight as to
how complicated it might be.  

If someone is very confident of their skills and wants to discuss
handling this upgrade/changeover for me, please email me directly, as I
would prefer to have a person more knowledgable than myself do the
changeover. I use 2 servers and 4 clients.

I can be reached at wsams at southernlink.net

My office is located in Comer Ga, 16 miles northeast of Athens.  (no I
am not a bulldog fan)

I was referred to this list by a Linux consultant who likes to handle
security and firewall type stuff for large companies and does not like
to do the more routene administration duties.

Thank you

Walter Sams
SamsCo Htg. & Air, Inc.



On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:30, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:15, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> 
> > I think that RH has shot itself in the foot.  
> 
> That pretty well sums it up right there.  The top brass at RedHat is no
> longer composed of techs. It is now composed of business dweebs who look
> at "bottom line" and don't see how "community" fits into it.
> I do have a clients willing to shell out the $179 to buy RedHat. But
> they want it for all 10 machines. They will not shell out $2k for server
> features. They have been paying for the RHN updates because it is a good
> thing to have.
> 
> Most of my clients are _really_ grumbly about the server support license
> fees. As I am. That is MY job. I want to pay them for the packaging and
> testing and updates. I want to get paid to support the end client and
> their customization needs. I can't find what the support package does. 
> 
> I am waiting to see what rolls around now that RedHat is crippled and
> Suse is going under the wing of one of the biggest proponents of
> proprietary software after Microsoft, Sun and Oracle.