Fedora - The Next Generation

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:24, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:20 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > The problems with an RHEL clone are more to the tune of the fact that
> > you are uncertain of how many eyes are auditing it, that bug reports
> 
> At least one more than Red Hat :)
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of course that assumes that the binaries are the same or virtually the
same.
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> 
> > don't get back to the providers (Red Hat) and of course, there is no
> > accountability (i.e. support).
> 
> The only thing I ever wanted was not having the trouble to maintain
> software updates, and just bother with system administration, updating
> software, etc...
> 
> So, for fetching N rpms RHEL subscription plans way too expensive.
> An yearly subscription to give me access to update download would be
> nice, but no... Red Hat preffered to give way too much more than what I
> need on a very expensive plan, and keeps disregarding a small market
> that would come by addition.
> 
> Pay 1800 EUR/year for getting updates, we would accept.
> Pay N*1800 EUR/year for much more than the updates (that we don't need)
> for N machines we don't accept.
> 
> Of course... the instructions on WBEL's site have been very useful...
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clearly a viable option for you and many others. I may use it myself on
my own server (now running RH 8)

Craig