[Lias] Red Hat substitutes

[Colin Charles]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:49, Paul Shirren wrote:

> > A-2: The cost for licensing under the new RedHat system starts at around 
> > AU$500 per server for the "Basic" version, through to around AU$4,000 
> > per server for the "Premium" edition.
> > 
> >  http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/index.html
> You should check out the educational discounts.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/education/
> 
> My personal opinion is that the lowest risk *nix distributions 
> long term are Debian, MacOSX and OpenBSD.

Fedora seems to be OK, but I'd definitely also say Mandrake Linux as a
low risk *nix based distro. Read their 8 Golden Rules:

	http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2446
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