[TriLUG] different versions of 7.2 for sale

Rev. Christian J Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Mon Oct 22 22:44:55 EDT 2001


Jon Carnes writes:
> I don't think $60 is too bad.  I won't buy it personally, but I'll still
> buy an official copy for the company!  We always do.

I'm down with that.  :-)   As an individual consumer, though, $60 is about
twice what I would be willing to spend on point releases.

> If there are any Red Hat marketing lurkers I think that RH ought to come
> out with some companion guides.  El cheapo ($5 to $20) booklets that cover
> one or more aspects of using linux in a business or technical environment.
> Like extended White papers.

IBM has something like this.  Their "red books" are a treasure that I think
is up on the same level as the O'Reilly books.  But you can only get them
through IBM, I think.  It's a shame that they aren't marketed to a wider
audience.  They've got an excellent book on TCP/IP that I bought when I
worked for IBM.  I'll bet you they've got some good stuff on Apache, too.

If Red Hat wants to hire anyone to author such books, my resume is on file
with Martha Michaux.  ;-)





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