[Lias] Red Hat substitutes

[Andrew Dorrell]

I am surprised that SuSE has not appeared in this discussion.  It is a 
very polished and comprehensive distro with a good installer that always 
receives good reviews, has an online update system that works (and 
doesn't require maintenance payments)????


Roger Buck wrote:
> Ken Yap wrote:
> [--snip--]
> 
>> reviews of Fedora/White Box, etc. What about
>> MDK, are you going to review that?
> 
> 
> Am open to persuasion but this was what I intended to look at:
> 
>  1. Centos-3 (http://www.caosity.org/)
>  2. Whitebox
> 
> ... and if the above fail...
>  3. RHEL 3
> 
> .. and lastly...
>  4. MDK
>  5. FreeBSD 5.x
>  6. OSXWS
> 
> I also spent a _lot_ of time evaluating OSX Server 10.1 and 10.2 last year.
> 
> Our desired outcome is to find a free replacement for legacy RH that 
> will provide reasonable probability of long term supply for patches and 
> security updates.
> 
> The only reason for the "RedHattedness" is the need to support some 
> third part products (currently only available for installation on RH 
> distros).
> 
> Thanks to prev msg here, RHEL is now cheap enough for school use (in the 
> $ sense) but goes to the bottom of the list because "free" (in the open 
> sense) is preferable.
> 
> To be honest, I don't think any of them are ideal solutions for the 
> problem as stated.
> 
> If I were simply making a choice about what I'd prefer to use myself, 
> then that would be much easier :)
> 
> R.
> 
> 
> PS: Does anyone know if Filemaker Server (any flavour) has been ported / 
> installed on *BSD or any non-RH linux flavour(s) (excluding OSXS)?
> 
> 
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