NACS is upgrading both its infrastructure and its clients’ Red Hat servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.
This operating system is available in two flavors, Advanced Server (AS) and Workstation (WS). The key difference between the two versions is that WS is not designed for use in server environments; therefore, it does not support more than 2 processors, nor does it include various server packages.
For an annual subscription fee of $50 (AS) or $25 (WS), users are provided with access to the Red Hat Network, including patches and updates. For a small additional fee, departments can subscribe to this service through NACS and receive these benefits:
- Patch and update services provided by our on-campus server, resulting in much faster performance.
- License and release tracking, saving you paperwork and bureaucratic headaches.
- Automatic patches and updates installed as they become available.
Systems administered by NACS also receive these benefits. Please contact dcs@uci.edu for pricing and additional information.
Any DCSLIB subscriber upgrading to RHEL should install the Legacy Software Development package to maintain binary compatibility with the current Red Hat archive.
More information about RHEL can be found at: http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/
Redhat also publishes a commodity version of Linux called Fedora. Fedora is available for free, but has much more limited support. A comparison may be found athttp://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html
Support for the current version of Red Hat Linux ended on April 30, 2004.