This one time, at band camp, Ed Wilts <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Myth. Did you upgrade from NT4 to Win2K for free? How about from 2K to > XP? Lucky you - they gave you that for free too? So, updates from one Enterprise release to the next will be free? > > Did you get your office suite for free from Microsoft too? And the > support and updates for them? No, Star Office has a windows port > > Somethings tells me you're a techie and not a bean-counter. correct. > > But I would not be going with > > a MS solution but I will be seriously looking at other linux distro's such > > as Debian and Mandrake to see what they have on offer. MS is not my first choice, I have looked at Debian and their support structure is similar in regard to life of a release. However, FreeBSD seems to maintain their releases for a good period of time. > > Red Hat has clearly stated that they will continue to provide free > downloads of their distribution and provide free updates. You'll get at > least the equivalent to what Debian and Mandrake will give you. If you > want commercial support, you're expected to pay for it. I fail to see > why people are so upset at this. I am not upset by this, infact, as I mentioned in previous mail, I fully agree with this approach, but I have a school with a limitted budget to make recommendations for regarding software. It was a giant leap for them to leave MS behind, although it is still used in the offices. > > Red Hat is a company and has several product offerings. For your home > machine, Red Hat Linux 9 is probably the appropriate solution. For your > office, AW is Red Hat's offering. > > For my office, I'm planning a migration to Red Hat Linux Enterprise > Linux ES for my servers. For my home system, I'll be running Red Hat > Linux 9 (7.1 on one system currently, and 9 on the system I'm in the > process of setting up). Enterprise Linux is not appropriate for my > home system. I'd like to run it for sure, but I can't justify and > afford it. I will have much homework to do on this issue. I still have a radius server running 4.2, has not missed a beat in years, Dual P133 SPC machine.... Kind regards Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
