[rhn-users] RedHat Licensing stinks

[leam at reuel.net]

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).
> 
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> Dr. Philippe B. Laval