[rhn-users] RedHat Licensing stinks

Robert Potts robert at pottsdata.com
Thu Sep 1 14:27:10 UTC 2005


switch to free:

http://www.freebsd.org

At 08:17 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:09:20AM -0400, leam at reuel.net wrote:
> > Yes, you have a few choices.
> >
> > First, Fedora Core is free and updates rather rapidly. Second, if your 
> systems are working then do you need to upgrade?
> >
> > RHEL is "Enterprise" Linux. It is built with the "too many servers and 
> too few staff" idea in mind; you let Red Hat do the updates and you focus 
> on your business. It is probably not best suited for the 1-2 computer 
> shop where the users are also the sysadmins with a habit of tinkering 
> with things.  :)
> >
> > ciao!
> >
> > leam
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:56:19AM -0400, Philippe B. Laval wrote:
> > > I thought when RedHat went from 9.0 to the Enterprise stuff it was 
> terrible
> > > for small and mid-size users.  It is even worse.  Last year I bought a
> > > machine with Linux installed on it.  My one year subscription for 
> update has
> > > run out.  After talking with people at RedHat, I am told I have to 
> pay $179
> > > for this year in order to get the very basic updates.  If I want more, I
> > > have to spend almost $300.  With 7.x, 8.x and 9.x it used to cost $60 a
> > > year.  Can anybody tell me if there is a cheaper way to keep my RedHat
> > > system up to date?  If there is not, this unacceptable.  Even 
> Microsoft does
> > > not do such awful things (Windows updates are free).
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Dr. Philippe B. Laval
> >
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>You could always try CentOS. http://www.centos.org/  It is built from
>the source that RedHat puts out. All references to RedHat are removed.
>You get basically the same thing, just rebranded.
>
>--
>Alex Roberts
>Infrastructure Analyst
>Hostmaster
>Red Hat Certified Technician
>Armstrong World Industries
>
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