Lineox Announces Support Prices, Migration Instructions from Red Hat Linux 9 27. May. 2004 Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is an enterprise level Linux distribution with almost 5 years of planned support life. In the past Lineox has provided updated program packages with feature enhancements, bug and security fixes for free. The update service will be fee based starting fall 2004. As an introductory offer, Lineox sells one year update service licenses including free coverage until the end of 2004. The update service entitles you to all released errata updates. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is very similar Red Hat Linux 9, because it is based off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. About 25% of RedHat 9 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 are the same. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 was built mostly from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 sources, therefore upgrading from Red Hat Linux 9 is very easy and fast. In some cases, it might even be possible to use Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 updates on Red Hat Linux 9 without the need to upgrade the rest of the system. As security updates are released the Red Hat 9 packages will be updated to Lineox 3.0. Lineox targets mainly Red Hat Linux 9 users who were left without support from Red Hat, Inc. on April 30. Many long time Linux users need only a reliable, long lasting, and affordable source of updated packages and that is what Lineox provides. Annual subscription fees start from 15 Euros per year for a single system, 5 Euros if the customer has over 50 systems. For larger customers Lineox offers Enterprise subscriptions starting from 3 Euros per system from 50 to 99 system sites and 2000 Euros for unlimited site wide license. To help Red Hat Linux 9 users upgrade, Lineox has made instructions available on how to upgrade their systems to Lineox Enterprise Linux using only command line tools, thus making the procedure easy to deploy even remotely over a network and multiple systems at a time. One former Red Hat Linux 9 administrator, Lucas Albers from Montana State University of Bozeman Montana says "We upgraded our RedHat 9 boxes to Lineox 3.0 because it was a seamless upgrade. Fedora would have been a poor choice, as we would have had to upgrade much too quickly. Most of the major package versions for RedHat 9 and Lineox 3.0 were the same, so the upgrade was seamless. We have also used Lineox to upgrade RedHat 9 on our computational servers, which we couldn't take offline for a CD based upgrade. We used the apt based upgrade to do a completely remote upgrade, with no interruption of service. Lineox has been very helpful and quick to respond with any questions we have had concerning upgrades on our existing systems. Lineox supports a local apt repository so keeping systems up to date is quick and easy, we can also use third party apt repositories that are compatible with RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0, such as the dag repository. Our central library also upgraded their servers from RedHat 9 to Lineox 3.0 and have been very happy with the process. Their pricing is very economical, service is great, and system upgrades have been seamless. Most of the tools work the same as RedHat 9, so it has been very fast learning curve. I recommend Lineox to any companies/institutions looking for a cheap, reliable, and low maintenance replacement for RedHat 9." About Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is a Linux distribution built from modified Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 sources. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 offers customers enterprise level Linux operating system at an attractive price level without bundled support options. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is available immediately directly from www.lineox.com and also from resellers. The suggested retail price is 17.90 Euro for DVD-ROM and approximately 20 USD/Euro for separately sold printed Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 Installation Guide. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 contains all freely distributable programs found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS/ES/WS, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and Red Hat Developer Suite. On the same DVD-ROM there are also 6 different language versions of OpenOffice.org 1.1.0, dictionaries, spell checkers, and other support files. As preferred package management system, Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 utilizes apt-get, which resolves package dependencies automatically. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 users can use apt-get to get security and feature updates from www.lineox.com and other Internet sites. Graphical front-end to apt-get, synaptic, is also included. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 DVD-ROM contains a large collection of additional third party program packages that can be easily installed and managed with synaptic. As on-line documentation Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 offers LIFF - the complete Linux documentation collection. LIFF can be used as a documentation server and the 900MB of documentation it contains can be searched in seconds depending on the speed of the server hardware. LIFF is also available separately from www.lineox.com. Further information www.lineox.com, linux@lineox.com Migration instructions for Red Hat Linux 9 users: www.lineox.com/rh9migration.php Support price list: www.lineox.com/buysupport.php Lucas Albers: admin@cs.montana.edu DAG apt repository: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/i386/RPMS.dag/ About Lineox Although a young company, Lineox founders have made Finnish localized Linux distributions ranging from the first one to predecessor of Lineox Enterprise Linux, which reached about 70 to 90% share of Finnish Linux retail market. Trademarks "Lineox" is a registered trademark of Lineox, Inc. "Red Hat" is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. "Linux" is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.