Howdy again, On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:21 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On 2/22/06, taharka <res00vl8@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > > > Me too posts don't bother me one bit ;-) Having said that, what say ye > > to sense of pocketbook ethics for, small businesses/churches/charity > > organizations/etc., po folk in general, that require a RHEL type > > solution but, can't afford RHEL pricing & definitely not the $MS > > solution? > > > > Inquiring minds want to know ;-)) > > Absolutely, that's a good question. What fills the void left by the > abandonment of the consumer version of Red Hat Linux? What can an end > user short of funds, or a non-profit organization turn to now that > "free Red Hat Linux" isn't around anymore? > > I'd submit that for a more "stable" environment than Fedora, SuSE > Linux, Mandriva, Ubuntu, or even Debian (assuming their new release > schedules work out) fill that void and meet that need for a Linux > system that's stable, tested, with a longer release cycle than every 4 > months. Now, I'll submit (note I said RHEL type solution) that, the above choices do not qualify :-( > If you *really* want to run "Red Hat Linux for free" then you should > (IMO) be turning to Fedora Linux. It's not a question of running "Red Hat Linux for free", it's more a question of running an affordable RHEL type solution ;-) The only available solutions I see are the free ones. > -- > Chris taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
