FC4 or FC5

[Jim Cornette]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> bruce wrote:
>> thanks thomas!!
>>
>> any idea regarding rhel 5? i'd assume that centos (5) would be out 
>> shortly
>> thereafter as well...
> 
> RHEL 5 is slated for a December release, depending on feature 
> completeness and quality.
> 
> I don't know about CentOS's release cycle.  IMHO, even though they are 
> technically true to the letter of the GPL, I think that they do
> is a blatant ripoff of all the hard work that Red Hat does in creating 
> FC and then RHEL. 

CEntOS does add value to RHEL because the users of the RHEL sourced 
distribution run into problems on occasion with the derived 
distribution. The bugs are examined by those who compile the 
distribution and file patches and/or reports back to the RHEL
  developers. Eventually, those using CEntOS may buy RHEL products when 
circumstances allow them and the product is affordable enough to warrant 
the move.


  If you want RHEL, spend the bucks and get it.  It is
> not expensive, WS is only $179 and it contains everything you will need 
> for a workstation.  If you want a true server build, ES is $349 and that 
> is still cheap.

The pricing of the product sounds a lot more affordable compared to the 
past pricing schemes I recall. If I ran a business where I needed a 
stable OS with long term support, I would give high consideration to 
investing in an RHEL release.

As stated earlier regarding RHEL4, it is pretty old in using 
technological changes within the FC3 release. I moved through the Fedora 
releases to date and do not need a super stable and frozen in time 
release. When the next RHEL release comes out later in the year, I might 
like the pricing, stability, features, support and other offerings 
enough to run RHEL as a base for running programs.
I believe limiting filesytem choices and running non-native RHEL 
programs and still getting support are my only hold backs. The reduced 
programs within the distribution might be another consideration for 
choosing the distribution.

> 
> See https://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/ for pricing and details, and 
> see http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ for links to comparisons of features and 
> functions.
> 
> Thomas
> 
Jim

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