Migration question

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 16:08 4/3/2004, you wrote:
>don't really want to use Fedora because I don't have the experience or
>the talent in programming to give back to the Linux community

You don't have to... it's perfectly OK to use Fedora even if you can't 
"give back." Or you can find other ways of giving back, such as 
participating on the mailing lists and helping to answer questions, or 
helping your friends start to use Linux, or writing documentation... you 
don't *have* to program. You don't *have* to do anything at all, really... 
just use Fedora and be happy. I've found Fedora Core 1 quite stable and 
happy, by the way... just what I would have expected from RHL-10 if there 
had been one.

>also can't afford Red Hat Enterprise - the lowest price I saw for
>Enterprise was over a hundred dollars ($179?).  I can't afford that.

You can get Red Hat Professional Workstation from several places for around 
$85, which includes a box, CD media, and printed manuals with one full year 
of up2date included. RHPW is Red Hat's way of giving you Red Hat Enterprise 
Workstation (RHEL-WS) in a cheaper way. I even saw it at Staples for $55, 
which is actually cheaper than the $60 you used to pay just for the up2date 
service.

RHPW and RHEL-WS include sendmail, samba, and Apache as well as some other 
server packages. There are just a few things not included in the package, 
such as BIND and an FTP server, but you can either live without those or 
simply get the SRPMS from the Edge Server package tree and rebuild them on 
your box. Not a problem either way.

I see both Fedora ($0) and RHPW (~$60-$80) as viable options for you, 
although I suggest you would be happy with Fedora and it costs absolutely 
nothing. Fedora Core 2 is scheduled to be released around May 10th or so, 
perhaps the 15th. Since the likelihood of a major security flaw being found 
in Apache or sendmail within those two unsupported weeks is tiny, you could 
migrate straight from RHL-9 to FC2.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
http://www.simpaticus.com