On Monday, Nov 10th 2003 at 12:58 -0700, quoth Guy Fraser: =>I got an email last week letting me know that RHL 9 is EOL April 04. => =>Two weeks ago RHN [the bastards] automaticaly renewed my subscription, =>and now I only get 6 months of updates for the full price. Now that is =>what I can come to expect from RH in the future. => =>Now I have an issue, should I fork out 50% [RH's way of easing the pain =>after they ripped off a bunch of their paying supporters] of the US$349 =>for RHEL ES Basic or go to another distribution . => =>Since I need bind and samba server, RHEL WS doesn't seem to fit. => =>I will also then have to fork out substantial cash each year to keep =>my machine up to date. => =>I didn't mind paying ~$300 per year volentarily to buy the latest and =>greatest box sets for RHL, but RHEL is just out of the park for my =>one server at home, and its price is aproaching M$ server software which =>has FREE updates. The thought of supporting Bill Gates sickens me almost =>as much as being ripped off by RH whom I have supported over the last 7 =>years. => =>Fedora doesn't seem very apealing especialy since a week ago when I last =>checked, it still wasn't even ready to download an ISO. => =>I use my RHL machine at home as mostly just a dns,mail and file server =>[560GB] for R&D to keep up to date and develop software and patches for =>ISP management, and automated file management. => =>Could people let me know about good experiences with other distributions =>and the benefits of that distribution. I just don't get this one. Why don't you just run the new fedora release for free. It comes with everything. It's just that the support issues are different. But how much support do you actually use from your contract with RH anyways? I'm not trying to screw with RH here. I really like their product, but for my home server, I just don't see any need to pay for the media or the support. If the money is small for your budget then pay for it. If it's not then just use it for free. I downloaded the fedora cds (all six) in about 2 hours. Before I used to use cheapbytes.com for $1.50/cd. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
