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Donnerstag April 14, 2005

"Pssst... Free Linux! Only $799!"
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( Apr 14 2005, 08:06:32 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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Hello, Erwin. It is true that an RedHat Advanced Server for $799 is a lot. Nevertheless, there are several workarounds: 1) Educational price $25 per year; or 2) Installing Fedora Core 3 (RHEL4) is based on it and compile the RHEL4 upgrade packages yourself. They provide all those whose license is allowing it on their ftp site; or 3) Compile completely all free packages that are available on their ftp (base installation and upgrades) -- this is time consuming though, but some companies make their life doing this. The solution (2) is quite optimal solution for an administrator who wants to have upgrades during some years, but does not have the money to pay. The prise of RedHat Enterprise Linux is an old Sun argument showing that Solaris is actually cheeper. Where I work, we use both Solaris and RedHat Enterprise and they are both optimal solutions for different things :-) Cheers Fridrich

Gesendet von Fridrich Strba am April 15, 2005 at 09:22 AM CEST #

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