[rhn-users] RedHat Licensing stinks

[Philippe B. Laval]

RedHat won't do the updates unless you have a subscription which is the
subject of my question.

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-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of leam at reuel.net
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:09 AM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RedHat Licensing stinks

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

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