David Jericho wrote: > The sad thing I have to admit, is as a sane, professional, and rational > admin who has my, my users, and my employers interests at heart, 64-bit > Sun hardware and Solaris looks to be an attractive proposition. At least ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Solaris over x86 may be interesting, but SPARC servers/support aren't cheaper. > it's not a bottomless money pit for services I won't use. you have several alternatives :-) - to change to a free distribution (Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake ...) - to change to a paidware distribution (SuSE, TurboLinux, SCO, Conectiva ...) - to buy the cheapest Red Hat EL based product: x Professional Workstation - $100 x WS - $180 x ES - $350 - to stay with RHL 7.2, 7.3 or 9 and: x to get updates from Fedora Legacy x to build yourself updates from RHEL erratas x to build yourself updates from NET sources x to paid someone to do dirty job x to do nothing and cry - to use Fedora Project distributions - to build yourself RHEL from sources -- HTML mails are going to trash automagically
