Fate of RedHat

Dave Ihnat ignatz at dminet.com
Sun Feb 22 19:27:02 UTC 2004


On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:51:21PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> Then Red Hat Professional Workstation may be for you.  It's effectively
> RHEL WS without support - you get a full year of updates and a
> multi-year life cycle.  It sells for about $80-85 which is in the same
> range as the old RHL releases plus RHN.

No.  You can't get the RPMs for anything that wasn't bundled with RHPW.
This means you can't get RHPW+(add unsupported but compatible compiled
RPM- based missing pieces).

And if I have to go get source, why buy RedHat?  There are other distros
to consider now.
-- 
	Dave Ihnat
	ignatz at dminet.com





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