[WBEL-users] RHEL

[Ganeshram Iyer]

Thank you all for your comments/suggestions. I guess I did not clarify 
my need properly. The reason for only two choices (AS or WS) is the 
place where I work has purchased site-wide licenses for WS and has 
limited AS licenses for installs on computers which are company-owned 
(no personal usage). I guess the WS would be sufficient for me as this 
is all it is going to do:
1) SAMBA Domain (15 computers with 15+ users)
2) HTTP/HTTPS server (Apache)
3) FTP server (vsftpd)/WEBDAV
4) SSH server
5) Backup software of some kind
I dont know yet if I would need mysql-server. My box is an IBM machine 
with 1GB RAM and 200GB HD. It is the only server level system we have 
but with limited PCs available to us I do not want this PC to be server 
alone. If I can let users use this machine as a desktop it would help 
increase resources. From your suggestions it seems that it would be OK 
as a desktop though not the ideal choice.

Thanks again for all your help.
Ganesh

Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 20:55 -0400, Jim Wildman wrote:
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>>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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>>>Some other considerations ... mysql-server is NOT provided with RHEL
>>>ES/AS (you would need to compile it yourself and there is no support)
>>>and if you need to run the kernel-unsupported package for hardware it
>>>isn't supported (hence, the name).  I personally see no reason to use
>>>RHEL except on production Servers where you need the RedHat support...
>>>like an Oracle server...
>>>      
>>>
>>mysql-server is in the extras channel on AS.  Though RH hasn't dropped a
>>new binary to match the client binaries for this week's updates.  As was
>>noted, there are support differences and some of the compile time
>>options are different between the kernels.  I personally use CentOS3.x
>>for my desktop at work and at home (RHEL3 rebuild like WBEL).  
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>>From the RedHat website:
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>Extra packages
>All Red Hat Enterprise Linux media kits include an Extras CD that
>provides easy access to a selection of packages that are not supported
>by Red Hat. These, and additional packages that will be provided as they
>become available, may also be downloaded from the Red Hat Network
>"Extras" channel (included as part of all Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>subscriptions).
>
>The Extras CD includes IBM Java and BEA JRockit. The RHN Extras channel
>also provides MySQL and PostgreSQL server components (client-side
>components are included as part of the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>distribution).
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>So, they do have the mysql and postgressql servers as installable, just
>not supported by the RHEL service contract.
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>>Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE       jim@rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com
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>I'm not saying that RHEL is bad, and if you need the support (for what
>they provide support for) then RHEL AS 3 is great.  If you don't need
>the max support provided by AS (or the extra memory or CPUs) then ES is
>good.
>
>But, if you need to use Kernel-unsupported or your major business
>application is MySQL or one of the other Extras channel (or non
>provided) packages, you should evaluate what you will get for your
>support payment.
>
>Another thing I want to point out is that for each install of RHEL, you
>need to pay the support subscription.  (So you absolutely can't buy one
>copy of RHEL AS 3 and install it legally on 10 machines).
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>Johnny Hughes
><http://www.HughesJR.com/>
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