On 13/09/04 05:04 +0530, Rishi wrote:
Please note even Fedora is also unspported
What does support mean anyway?
A number to call when something goes wrong. If you run hardware from companies like IBM/HP/Dell, you could find that they will not support you on hardware issues as well, if you are not running an approved OS. The same goes for closed source software like Oracle.
Hasn't anyone heard of Debian?
Good administrators aren't cheap. Much cheaper to pay an average administrator and have the good guy on hire from some other company.
No one ever needed support and it's been doing great ever since it started.
The community ... i.e. GLUGs are equivalent to support... right? Google = support HOWTO docs and MAN pages = support
But not a neck to catch.
And if you really want to pay for support... there are host of vendors for the GNU/Linux platform that a just waiting to do so irrespective of which flavor you are using... and that's the least of the problems according to me...
Ah no, most of them will support only their standardised platforms. They have scripts for that, staff trained for that and they will support those platforms.
Devdas Bhagat