[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[Lightner, Jeff]

The reason people get RHEL is specifically for "support".   Saying
"support" doesn't matter in this context makes no sense.   If you want
an unsupported distro you are free to use one.

RHEL4 not only is very old but RedHat just sent out EOL notices for it
this month.    RHEL6 came out earlier in the year.

Also you might want to question your requirement for RHEL4 over RHEL5 -
I've noticed some vendors that actually support the latter haven't
bothered to update documents that certified their products running on
the former.   (Oracle products are fairly bad about that - if you open a
ticket with them you can find out whether RHEL5 is officially supported
for the product you want to install but often won't find it in the
installation documents.)

The Fedora project has a repository called the EPEL for RPMs you can use
in RHEL but these RPMs aren't "supported" by RedHat.   Similarly RPMs at
Dag Wieers' site are safe in my view but again aren't "supported" by
RedHat.   (RedHat of course supports the Fedora project but don't
directly support end users' use of it.)

Since ntop is a monitoring tool I don't think I'd feel much compunction
about installing it on a RHEL system from sources other than RedHat so
long as those sources were ones I trusted like the EPEL and Dag sites I
mentioned.   

Also most open source packages are exactly that - you are free to
download and compile the source yourself if you don't trust third party
repositories.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:10 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

James Sumners wrote:
> I mean really, this stupid distribution doesn't even include useful
tools:
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> $ sudo up2date ntop
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...
> ########################################
> 
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
> 
> Name                                    Version              Rel
>         Arch
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------
> 
> 
> The following packages you requested were not found:
> ntop
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 

add the epel repository to your RHEL.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
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