Red Hat users. What are you going to do?

I was just looking to get some Red Hat user's opinions on what they are planning to do now that Red Hat is pulling support for it's non-commercial version. I am personally switching to Debian. Just courious. Thanks.

I stopped using it a while back (like four months or so ago) and switched over to the ol' convenient knoppix, as well as hdd-based Slackware.

I've gone to libranet 2.7 (based off debian) after seeing some info on it here (this site).

This apt-get feature is awesome!

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I've gone to libranet 2.7 (based off debian) after seeing some info on it here (this site).
This apt-get feature is awesome!

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The apt-get easy as pie none of that redhat bs registration(aKa similar to Microsotfy) just to get all the patches & upgrades. To get the ugrades/patches all I did was type : apt-get upgrade or somthinng similar easy as pie.
Plus I like the Area 51 theme.
They can have my copy of IceWM when they pry it from my skeleton fingers.
I posted some screenshots in the Show us your stuff thread in chitchat
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...0&pagenumber=4

Yeah, apt-get is the bomb. Our distro Fu-King is based off of Debian also, so it was amazing that I was still running Red Hat. I just had stuck with it for a while. It just seems to me that Red Hat is pi$$ing on the small guys, by pulling support for its home OS. I don't know maybe that is just me. On my box that I do pen testing with I run Slackware, but I am soon to be dumping that when our Distro is closer to being done. Thanks for the comments guys.

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Originally posted here by sysmin770
I was just looking to get some Red Hat user's opinions on what they are planning to do now that Red Hat is pulling support for it's non-commercial version. I am personally switching to Debian. Just courious. Thanks.

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If they like red hat they will probably just use Fedora I personally dont like red hat but I tried 9.0 and Fedora Core 1 for comparison and they are almost the exact same with the exception of changing some boot screens and a few other things.

I'm looking into other distros ATM. Right now I'm going to look into gore's advise and try SuSE.

I never did before because I couldn't find a reliable ftp server with decent DL speeds and I've been told that the only way to get it is to buy the boxed set.

http://www.wormwang.net/mirrors/SuSE/8.2/

That is the mirror I've found. I got all the disks overnight, and plan to load them up on a test box this weekend. I'm hoping for the best!

Just a quick update:

Tonight I went ahead and installed SuSE 8.2. I was a Red Hat guy because thats what I've been learning/using for the past couple of years. I must say I now have a new distro. If it wern't for the support for video games that XP gives me, I'd completly switch over to SuSE. I was amazed at how easy it was to install. After the install you can run your updates right away. No registering with RHN to get your "demo" account. Software installation is a snap. I'm used to doing things via CLI, but the GUI is great. Its performance on my machine is amazing! It found ALL my hardware and automatically configured it for me. I had no problem using smbclient to connect to my RH samba server to get my mp3s and network drives.

I am VERY impressed with what I see (for the last 5 hours that I've used it).

This was only going to be a test box, but I'm going to leave it. I'm going to backup my RH box and turn it into a SuSE box.

I'd like to thank gore for the advise to try it out and for his help getting me feet wet with the config utility.

If you're looking for a new distro, check it out. I had no problem getting used to the config utilities and misc minor differences between the two distros. I posted a link to the .iso's I used above. It is version 8.2, however version 9.0 is out. I couldn't find that for download... but to tell you the truth... I think I'm just going to go out and buy it so I can get the docs and all. Eitherway... 8.2 or 9.0... its def worth a shot. I love it so far. I can't believe how much stuff they pack into those 5 cds... I'm blown away. (no, you don't have to install all 5 CDs...)

Well i don't have any problem because i all ways buy the realeases that i whant, but as far im concerned not a lot of people buys them. And as a Linux user, i dont just use RH (SuSe Is my favorite) i think it sucks that RH whants to do that kind of stuff, it seems that they forgot were they came from, shame on them.

Thanks for all the comments. We've been talking about the impact RH's move is going to make on our operation. We have a few Linux boxes, mostly for student use in Web, database and user interface design. And I have a Linux system I'm using for network analysis.

I may blow away my RH box and try the Libranet distro for grins.

We may try the SUSE route for the student servers.

Once I actually get some free time from school, I plan on setting up a Suse box, Smoothwall, gentoo, and something else that I've never tried before.

Any suggestions people?

I think I'm going SuSE. I'm not sure though. I'm also considering Slackware. I'll probably just go with SuSE though. I kinda like having a nice box set. It's just another cool thing to have on my bookshelf.

Ok, I just installed Suse 9 Professional. Having only installed RedHat 9 it is a pretty easy install and from what I have seen so far its pretty easy to configure. You can control everything through the control center and the YAST modules are almost like Windows wizards but better. Patching SUSE was really easy and in the install process it asks you if you want to install all updates. (I dont miss the reboots in between patches) Anyway, I am going to get back to messing around with the system.

I don't use redhat at all on my desktops, work and home are OS X 10.3 now. But we do use Redhat 9 on several servers, and Redhat AS 2.1 on one server. All are going to be upgraded to REdhat EL ES 3.

The move kinda pissed me off, but then I stepped back and thought about it, and I think it makes sense, not just from a business perspective for RedHat, but for the Open Source Community as a whole. I won't get into a big argument here, but, I think it is going to be a good thing over the long run.

As for you SuSe switching folks, I wouldn't get too attached now that Novell is in the picture with them. I have no idea what novell is going to do with them, but, just dont get too attached.