thoroughfare
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- Aug 11, 2003
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Hi,
I'll be buying DA licenses direct from John and Mark soon, and I need to decide which OS I want to run. Debian is my favourite Linux distro, but DA don't support it
This leaves me with:
RH8 or RH9
FreeBSD 4.x/5.x
...and possibly very soon RHE or Fedora.
I'll be running mission critical production servers for shared hosting. I guess RHE would be a good choice, although I'm a little adverse to it for two reasons; 1. I might need to pay for it with the datacentre I'm going for, and 2. I don't really feel that it's right that RH are selling free software.
So I thought about FreeBSD... I'll be hiring an admin so it doesn't really matter that I'm not used to FreeBSD. And it seems to have a good following. I'm just a little concerned over whether it'll limit some of my software choices.
I've also wondered about RH8. Apparently there are companies that plan to keep RH8 patched etc, but then that's not really a good long term plan. I want to pick an OS and stick with it.
Fedora isn't an option really... too unstable as far as I understand.
John, Mark, is there anything we can do to speed up DA for Debian? Perhaps a quick whip-round everyone?
Help!
Thanks,
Matt
I'll be buying DA licenses direct from John and Mark soon, and I need to decide which OS I want to run. Debian is my favourite Linux distro, but DA don't support it
This leaves me with:
RH8 or RH9
FreeBSD 4.x/5.x
...and possibly very soon RHE or Fedora.
I'll be running mission critical production servers for shared hosting. I guess RHE would be a good choice, although I'm a little adverse to it for two reasons; 1. I might need to pay for it with the datacentre I'm going for, and 2. I don't really feel that it's right that RH are selling free software.
So I thought about FreeBSD... I'll be hiring an admin so it doesn't really matter that I'm not used to FreeBSD. And it seems to have a good following. I'm just a little concerned over whether it'll limit some of my software choices.
I've also wondered about RH8. Apparently there are companies that plan to keep RH8 patched etc, but then that's not really a good long term plan. I want to pick an OS and stick with it.
Fedora isn't an option really... too unstable as far as I understand.
John, Mark, is there anything we can do to speed up DA for Debian? Perhaps a quick whip-round everyone?
Help!
Thanks,
Matt