Wrong mailing list. blinux list is kindly hosted by Redhat but has nothing to with them otherwise. Please read blinux FAQ at http://leb.net/blinux before posting to the list. Thank you --Hans (maintainer blinux-lists) On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I surely do hope I'm wrong in the conclusions I reached last weekend; if > anyone can poke a hole in this please DO! > > I had been using Red Hat 8, enjoying updates on my demo account and > feeling only slightly guilty in doing so. Since support for this system > will expire at the end of December I decided to upgrade to version 9 so > I'd get an additional year of updates. Bad move! > > In the first place, support for version 9 will expire at the end of > April, 2004, so this move gained only four months of support. Much worse > than that, though, I am no longer entitled to use my demo account. The > demo account was for version 8 only and cannot be moved from version 8 > to 9. To be able to use the Update Agent (up2date) on version 9 I have > to subscribe to the basic service which is $60 a year. If I'm not > mistaken, I won't even be able to hand download new patches when I see > them (if I'm permitted to see them) in the errata list. > > Admittedly I'm least sure of this last part, but even what precedes it > is most disappointing. > > Can anybody restore tranquility to my jangled nerves? Please? And if I'm > right in all this, have I inadvertently stumbled into a group of rich > folks who thumb their noses at a mere sixty bucks a year? > > Thanks much, > > Lee > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Blind support for Linux - http://www.leb.net/blinux/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list