I too was surprised at not seeing any more people mentioning SysAdmin magazine. I'm also kind of surprised by how few people are mentioning the various Linux magazines. Personally, I usually keep the current issues of the following:
SysAdmin
Linux Magazine
Linux Journal
The Internet Protocol Journal (quarterly Cisco sponsored journal with free subscription)
Baseline (more of a PHB type publication but it gives insight on how the more business oriented people are looking at things plus its a free subscription anyways)
I'll also occationally pick up an issue of 2600 when I happen to see one on the rack when I'm looking around the bookstore.
Just in case anyone is being extremely slow today, this is a joke. Apparently, the editors are going to try and make April Fool's DAY into April Fool's MONTH.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the announcement on Dec. 19th when it come though on the redhat-announce mailing list. I had often wondered why RedHat was still supporting 6.2 but I would have never imagined they would ever go to only a 1-year life-span. That is just way too short. I have been using RedHat for my client's servers but now I am looking for another distro to switch to that has some kind of reasonably easy update procedure for patches and such. I'm currently planning on not installing any new servers using RedHat Linux after June 30th of this year due to this policy change. I do not fell it is right to change my clients full price for a new server install when I change them over to whatever distro I finally decide to switch too so I will likely loose some potential income over this. Speaking of which, does anyone have any good suggestions of distros to use for servers? I'm currently looking mostly at just going to Debian and I am also looking into Slackware. I have used Mandrake in the past for servers and did not find it satisfactory for a server (its perfectly fine for a desktop though). Does anyone have any suggestions that I've overlooked? As far as a desktop distro goes, I'm still trying to decide if a 1-year EOL is reasonable or not. It would be nice if RedHat changed the EOL of 7.3, 8.0 and future releases to be closer to 5 years, or even the 3 years that they are planning on doing with their Advanced Server line. The one thing that gives some hope that the 1-year EOL is not in stone is this line from the announcement: "Therefore, starting with Red Hat Linux 8.0, we have updated the errata support policy and will now provide errata support for all releases of the base OS for at least 12 months from the date of the initial release." (emphasis mine)
I've also been wondering why this has taken this long to make it onto Slashdot. I was expecting to see it on the front page the day it was sent to the redhat-announce mailing list or at least within a week, not over a month later.
Slashdot Mirror
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SysAdmin
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Linux Magazine
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Linux Journal
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The Internet Protocol Journal (quarterly Cisco sponsored journal with free subscription)
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Baseline (more of a PHB type publication but it gives insight on how the more business oriented people are looking at things plus its a free subscription anyways)
I'll also occationally pick up an issue of 2600 when I happen to see one on the rack when I'm looking around the bookstore.Just in case anyone is being extremely slow today, this is a joke. Apparently, the editors are going to try and make April Fool's DAY into April Fool's MONTH.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the announcement on Dec. 19th when it come though on the redhat-announce mailing list. I had often wondered why RedHat was still supporting 6.2 but I would have never imagined they would ever go to only a 1-year life-span. That is just way too short. I have been using RedHat for my client's servers but now I am looking for another distro to switch to that has some kind of reasonably easy update procedure for patches and such. I'm currently planning on not installing any new servers using RedHat Linux after June 30th of this year due to this policy change. I do not fell it is right to change my clients full price for a new server install when I change them over to whatever distro I finally decide to switch too so I will likely loose some potential income over this. Speaking of which, does anyone have any good suggestions of distros to use for servers? I'm currently looking mostly at just going to Debian and I am also looking into Slackware. I have used Mandrake in the past for servers and did not find it satisfactory for a server (its perfectly fine for a desktop though). Does anyone have any suggestions that I've overlooked? As far as a desktop distro goes, I'm still trying to decide if a 1-year EOL is reasonable or not. It would be nice if RedHat changed the EOL of 7.3, 8.0 and future releases to be closer to 5 years, or even the 3 years that they are planning on doing with their Advanced Server line. The one thing that gives some hope that the 1-year EOL is not in stone is this line from the announcement: "Therefore, starting with Red Hat Linux 8.0, we have updated the errata support policy and will now provide errata support for all releases of the base OS for at least 12 months from the date of the initial release." (emphasis mine)
I've also been wondering why this has taken this long to make it onto Slashdot. I was expecting to see it on the front page the day it was sent to the redhat-announce mailing list or at least within a week, not over a month later.