OT: RedHat going to a subscription model? WTF??? |
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OT: RedHat going to a subscription model? WTF??? |
SirAndy |
May 11 2004, 01:10 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,669 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
so, if i understand this right, RedHat Linux just went to a yearly subscription model, ranging from $179 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS) to $2499 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS) PER YEAR ...
WTF??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) so, now i have to pay $179 each year to use Linux as a desktop workstation? this is nuts ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) Andy |
fiid |
May 11 2004, 03:27 PM
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Turbo Megasquirted Subaru Member Group: Members Posts: 2,827 Joined: 7-April 03 From: San Francisco, CA Member No.: 530 Region Association: Northern California |
IMHO Debian is now the free linux of choice. Fedora is pretty nice, but it's future is a little uncertain. RedHat is okay if you want to pay for it. You are paying for them investing a bunch of time in QA and making sure that the packages they are shipping have the correct dependencies encoded into them, and also that it is a supportable product. If you don't care about that, don't pay for it.
One nice thing that debian has is a better system for automated updates that doesn't rely on you having a subscription. This helps you keep on top of the constant flow of bugs that are found in various open source packages. FreeBSD is also a good choice, but it's not Linux, which means it does not have the same product momentum that linux has. It will run linux binaries, which will work nearly all the time; most likely until you really need it to work, and then you'll find the bug. Oracle for linux was reported as running faster on FreeBSD than it does on Linux at one stage, but if you are paying for oracle, you might as well run it on a supported platform so they don't tell you to get lost when it breaks. If you are using C or C++ developed open source components, FreeBSD may well be a very good choice, but if you have Java in the mix it may be worth sticking with linux. FreeBSD shares debian's advantage in that it has a very elegant way of updating your components when you need to. BTW, "Real men" use whatever is necessary to get the job done in the best possible way given the circumstances, and recognise that the appropriate solution may vary. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I'll shut up now. Sponsor me :-) http://www.aidslifecycle.org/2113 |
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