Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise?

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Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise?

Posted by Cliff on Monday June 9, 2003 @08:05AM from the for-those-who-like-to-wear-hats dept.

weatherbug asks: "I've recently been appointed as a member of a team to help determine the direction our organization is headed with Red Hat Linux. Currently we're using multiple versions from Red Hat 6.x through Advance Server 2.1. However, now that Red Hat has effectively separated their distributions into a 'consumer' (Red Hat 8,9, etc) and 'enterprise' (Red Hat Adv. Server 2.x, etc), we aren't sure which version we want to adopt. A Red Hat salesman recently told us that the 'consumer' version of Red Hat was mostly for hackers and hobbyists who weren't concerned about stability and wanted the most up-to-date software, while the 'enterprise' version would be more stable and have a five-year product lifetime. As a long time Linux system administrator, I feel that this is a sales tactic and that there really is no compelling reason for us to ever use the 'enterprise' version. After all, it is Linux and it is open source, and we have enough in-house talent to not need Red Hat support. Why would we ever need or care about a five-year product lifetime? Am I wrong, and if so, could you set us straight? We'd be interested to know what other large organizations have decided to do."

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The cowboy one by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Definitely, along with a couple of pistols. It makes killing your enemies much easier. (I also like the top hat, too, especially for a night on the town.)
First Post by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This classy FP was brought to you by PBS.
Re:Neither by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Okay, this was funny, and then it was old and lame. Did it somehow cross over into being funny again at some point, and nobody told me?
Asshole by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You're being an asshole, give this guy a break. He did his job, just look at bush and the other assholes who lied. Propaganda is propaganda.
1. Re:Asshole by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Bush "and the other assholes" did not lie. As much as you wish they had, they didn't.
  
  I hope some patriot walks up to you and shoots you in the face for your anti-American sentiments.
2. Re:Asshole by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 09:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I hope someone picks you up by the collar of your spider-man undershirt and tosses you over to communist North Korea where you belong. In America we don't kill people for attacking the government, whether justly or not.
3. Re:Asshole by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 09:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  In America we don't kill people for attacking the government, whether justly or not.
  
  We should, though. Some people need killing.
  
  You have the unalienable right to say whatever you want, more or less. But that doesn't mean that speech doesn't have consequences. If you say certain things, like calling your president an asshole, for example, then you need killing.
  
  So please. Somebody shoot that guy.
4. Re:Asshole by Bourbonium · 2003-06-09 09:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Calling "your" president an asshole is now considered a capital offense? What paragraph of the USA PATRIOT Act included that provision?
  
  I'm afraid my life may be in danger now. Given the choice of siding with a numbnutz redneck like you or the Dixie Chicks, I'll take those babes any old day. Go ahead and shoot me, Hinckley.
5. Re:Asshole by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 09:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Calling "your" president an asshole is now considered a capital offense?
  
  Nope. There's no law against it.
  
  But anybody who does it needs killing.
  
  I'm afraid my life may be in danger now.
  
  If you're a fuckin anti-American, you can be quite certain that it is.
  
  Given the choice of siding with a numbnutz redneck like you or the Dixie Chicks, I'll take those babes any old day.
  
  You think this is about taking sides? You think this is about celebrities? You don't understand at all.
6. Re:Asshole by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 10:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Obviously you are a Bush-hating Radical Lefty who wants Ralph Nader to become president. Either that or you sympathize with Osama bin Laden. You want to make Bush-supporters, and Bush by extension, look like Hitlerian Fascists. Therefore you must hate Bush and think he is much worse than an asshhole.
7. Re:Asshole by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 10:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I know who you are! You're Jacques Chirac! Caught you Chirac. Now run along home like a nice little Frenchman and don't bother us real Americans (and intelligent europeans) any longer.
Re:Neither by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Actually, it was never funny. But to answer your questions, karma whores like this guy save any comment that was rate 4+, store it away for later use.

Once it has died down, you bring it back out... and BAM! Instant karma. It's sick really, but that is how this type of whore works it.

Don't let him fool you either, read his journal. He is a troll as well.
FUCK OFF. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Red Hat 7.3, with bugfixes by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Please don't use any software from Redhat is you care even the slightest about freedom. Redhat willingly sold out Taiwan to please the dictatorship in China.

There are plenty of distributions, there is no need to support evil companies like that.
Re:Neither by Surak · 2003-06-09 08:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ok, whatever, I'm a troll, and you're posting personal attacks as an AC. Trolls are calling me a troll. Now *that's* funny. I'd give you all my mod points and mod you up +5 funny if I had any.

--
My journal has hot /. gossip.
Re:Neither by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm a troll, and you're posting personal attacks as an AC. Trolls are calling me a troll.

I think you're a little unclear on what "troll" means. "Troll" doesn't mean "posts something I don't like." "Troll" means "posts something insincere in a pointless attempt to provoke responses."

People who post garbage aren't trolls, either. They're crapflooders. But around here, they get branded as trolls for no particular reason. I think maybe it's got something to do with the moderation system.

See, "troll" comes from the perfectly legitimate verb, "to troll," meaning to drag bait in the water and see what bites. That's what trolls do. They drag bait (provocative posts) in the water (the message board) to see what bites (who responds).

I know this isn't really important in any real sense of the phrase, but it's a pet peeve of mine. The use of "troll" as a generic term for anybody who posts something that someone doesn't care for bugs me.

By the way, I'm not the guy who called you a troll. I'm the guy who said you weren't funny. And I stand by that. The joke you posted is so old it's got mold growing on it. But that doesn't mean you're a troll. It just means you air-balled that one. No big deal.
Re:Red Hat 7.3, with bugfixes by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Companies in Taiwan have willingly sold out Taiwan to please the dictatorship in China.
Re:Neither (OT) by llamalicious · 2003-06-10 00:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dude, if you're gonna bitch, don't cower behind the AC name.
Do that, or STFU.

that is all.