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Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?Posted Nov 6, 2003 4:58 UTC (Thu) by jachim (subscriber, #2963)Parent article: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? Since I support a few servers in my spare time, I'm putting some thought into this issue lately. One of the servers is completely in my hands, and one only to make sure some websites run correctly. I honestly don't see the latter system moving anywhere fast, since the owner just put RH9 on it.... However, the other server can move in whatever direction I desire as long as the essential services keep working. I've thought about Debian, but I'm also giving serious consideration to Gentoo. I've been using it on several personal systems (now I just need to get the wife to use it...), and I'm very happy with it. Portage provides apt-like functionality as I understand it. I could even bootstrap a system on another partition and have it ready to switch over with probably only a couple hours of downtime. The article's right, though. I can't justify spending the money on RHEL just to run a firewall and file and print server. Ah well, time to try out Debian again, since it's been about 3 years.....
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Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? Posted Nov 6, 2003 15:34 UTC (Thu) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221) [Link] If you can't justify the money, then use Fedora. It's everything we liked about RHL except the name. It's like the difference between OpenOffice and StarOffice. up2date will work for free now, plus you'll get enhancements not just fixes. It is mostly maintained by Redhat. It is RHL, I belive the only reason that they changed the name was due to copyright issues, otherwise that would have stayed the same as well. It's just more open and moves faster 3 versions a year in place of 2. All of the security patches that affect the enterprise version will alos be available to the the fedora version. It seems they will all come from the same place, Just like OOo vs. SO.I think the only mistake that Redhat has made is in chnaging the name and there by confusing people.
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