On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Pete Wason wrote:
Martin, Eric wrote:
What are you looking for as far as help?
I'm running RH8.0 on my server.
a. I'm not sure if I should continue to use RH as support has expired, and I can't affort their enterprise version.
If you're looking to stick with Redhat (or something very similiar), you might want to look at Whitebox linux. (http://www.whiteboxlinux.org). In order to follow the GPL, Redhat provides source RPMs for all of the packages that they distribute with Redhat enterprise. Whitebox is Redhat enterprise rebuilt from those source RPMs. If you don't care if it's close to redhat or not, then you have a number of choices ahead of you. Debian is nice for a server assuming you don't want the latest and greatest. Gentoo is good if you want the latest and greatest, but don't care as much about stability and you want to get really in depth knowledge on how your system works. Mandrake and SuSE are both good choices if you're looking for systems back by companies complete with paid support when necessary.