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Substituting RHEL with Free Alternatives
Substituting RHEL with Free Alternatives
Posted Feb 5, 2004 17:55 UTC (Thu) by scripter (subscriber, #2654)Parent article: Substituting RHEL with Free Alternatives
What happens if/when RedHat decides to delay the distribution of their SRPMS for security fixes by a few weeks? Or what if they decide to only distribute SRPMS via the postal system? It could put a real cramp in these derivative projects.
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Substituting RHEL with Free Alternatives
Posted Feb 5, 2004 19:47 UTC (Thu) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link]
I believe that someone with a real, paid, subscription to RHEL3AS could get the SRPMS and give them to White Box per the GPL.Having bought one ES version of RHEL3, I must say that I am disappointed to discover that they have dropped support for ISA sound cards and have left off many *-devel RPMs that some might consider essential: e.g., sendmail-devel for actually being able to use the milter capability compiled into the sendmail RPM. I'm just guessing that Red Hat did that to keep the release at four discs. I can't imagine Enterprise computing without an anti-virus milter support!