[ale] Question on Current Red Hat Update Policies

[Bob Toxen]

It appears that Fedora does not do the QC and Regression Testing that
"commercial" Distros do and so some consider it unsuitable for Production
environments.

I recommend Slackware, Mandrake, or SuSE to my clients, depending on
requirements.

Bob Toxen
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 01:08:15PM -0500, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> Yes.
> 
> RHEL is a commercial project, with licenses and the whole software company
> thing.
> 
> FC is a "bleeding edge" project, with the latest and greatest (and
> unstablest....is that a word?)  stuff in it.  You *can*, however, do regular
> updates through apt-rpm and yum.
> 
> I'm using FC2 & 3 in production, becase if it came down to it, I could
> update what I have to whatever version I want...no troubles.
> 
> Jerald M. Sheets jr.
> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:16 AM
> To: ALE
> Subject: [ale] Question on Current Red Hat Update Policies
> 
> I abandoned RH for my home use when they let go of the home user market and
> now I am faced with having to use them for a project.  I have downloaded
> RHEL 3 and Fedora Core 3 and was wondering if one needs to buy a
> subscription to update RHEL or not.  I was also wondering what (if any)
> differences there are between RHEL and FC besides the official RH company
> support for RHEL.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Greg
> 
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