[Cialug] SUSE Question

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

You could try centos, which is a straight across clone of RHEL. You can
also get your updates for free...

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 23:10, James Shoemaker wrote:
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> > Well, my organization is a deaf non-profit that works to help deaf 
> > individuals, deaf organizations, or organizations serving deaf people. 
> > One of our service areas is technology because there are many ways in 
> > which technology can be leveraged to assist our deaf community to have 
> > equal access to the hearing world. So our clients tend to be businesses 
> > or organizations which have limited budgets so we try to leverage Linux 
> > solutions (where we can) for some of the big ticket items (from you know 
> > who and others) that usually drain dollars from IT budgets.
> > 
> > So, we don't really make money off it other than a very limited amount 
> > to fund our activities and partially pay our staff (of 2).
> > 
> > But I do very much appreciate all of your comments because they help me 
> > understand the enterprise level market which I haven't really worked 
> > with yet.
> 
> 	If you can live with slightly stale packages debian stable gets timely 
> security updates for free, they (the deb security team) backport the 
> security patches into the version that is used in stable.  I wouldn't 
> recommend using non-stable (testing or unstable) because they don't get 
> the security updates in nearly as good a schedule.
> 
> James
> 
> James
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