[rhn-users] RedHat Licensing stinks

[Alex Roberts]

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.

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Alex Roberts
Infrastructure Analyst
Hostmaster
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Armstrong World Industries