[NBLUG/talk] Free RH Linux is coming to an end....

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Mon Nov 3 11:19:01 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:09:58PM -0600, Warren Raquel wrote:
} 
} From what I gather it looks like the freely available version of RedHat 
} will only have a reliable use window of 7 months before official RPMS 
} are no longer produced for it. 

} This is a headache. How do you get around  this? 

Debian?  SuSE?


} So, now, with RedHat Enterprise it looks like the product lifetime is 
} around 5 years. What's the catch? Enterprise is licensed. The plus side 
} is you don't need to go upgrading your server to a new release every 
} half a year to make sure you don't get hacked. With Fedora or previous 
} releases of RedHat you could just keep going as is but no official 
} upgrades will be available.

Lifetime is 5 years.  License for upgrades is 1 year, so you gotta shell
out $179/year (or more).

I've got about 20 redhat machines at work now.  I don't mind buying "a"
license, but 20 gets kinda pricy for my budget.

We are going to have to get one RedHat Enterprise machine going and then
figure out what's open source and what's not.  I'm hoping we can get
updates with one licensed machine and put them on a server, then upgrade
many unlicensed machines.

We have closed source software we purchase that will only be supported
on Enterprise, so that limits my options.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com



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