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Got the same f-you-gram today - already figuring out what distro to fall back to but 99% of my experience has been on Redhat. No time to try them all....so FreeBSD/SuSE/Mandrake - what are your opinions of each? Flexiblity, ease of use, ease of migration, security etc.
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On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:16, Joshua Levitsky wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>It's happened. Red Hat has officially said F@#$ YOU to us all.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Hey Red Hat.. I've got a migration plan for you... it's called BSD / SuSE /</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Mandrake.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-Josh</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>--</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>System Engineer</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Time Inc. Information Technology</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>----- Original Message ----- </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>From: "Red Hat Network" <dev-null@rhn.redhat.com></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:50 PM</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Subject: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning</FONT></FONT></I>
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