On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:58:22PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 11:59, Harper, Patrick wrote: > > >From what I know Fedora is the replacement for the free RedHat products. > > They also have a professional version only available at stores in > > shrink-wrap for about $40.00 > > > > Fedora has been nothing but stable for me. I am using it for some of my > > IDS installs when they do not want to pay for rhel. > > > > http://www.internetsecurityguru.com/documents/ > > > > I may be full it of though :) and have no idea what I am talking about > > I've had the same experience. Fedora has been very stable and of > professional quality, for the most part. Especially when you put it > side-by-side with something like Mandrake. That's my major quandry now. > If (as someone pointed out in a previous post) it's true that there > still is a reasonably priced and supported NON-ENTERPRISE OS you can buy > from Red Hat, I might go for that. But then again, I've been spoiled by > Gnome 2.4. Not sure I'd want to go back to Gnome 2.2, older versions of > Evolution, etc. That's the tease of Fedora. It's very good and it > includes the latest stable stuff. > > Preston Same problem with Debian. If all this effort was put into keeping Debian up-to-date, there probably would be no RedHat. I believe Sarge is nearing it's end of testing. jay
