[TriLUG] Red Hat 7.3 - pricing & alternatives

Chris Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Tue May 7 09:17:02 EDT 2002


On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 08:54, John F Davis wrote:
> I think $60 is about right.   Besides, if more of you guys bought it
> instead of downloaded it for free, it might cost less.

Which is the flip side of the other suggestion, that more of us guys
would buy it instead of downloading it for free if it cost less.

The burden is on Red Hat to make this change if their goals include
increasing market share among hobbyists/enthusiasts.

> As for myself, I use Debian and I don't pay for updates.  Which is a good
> thing, because I update (apt-get upgrade) everyday.

Funny you should mention that.  I'm installing Woody on my Ultra 5 in
the background now.  It's downloading a bunch of updates so it may be
several hours before I can use it.  Not a big fan of the Debian
installer but I may just have to learn my way around it.

Over the weekend I installed Mandrake 8.2 for my brother on his
e-machine.  That was one of the best installers I've ever seen, right up
until the very end where it locked up hard (I think it was supposed to
be rebooting).  Anyway I rebooted the thing and as I suspected
everything was in good shape.  One of the things I liked about the
Mandrake installer, which would be a nice touch in Red Hat, is that
Mandrake downloaded all available updates for the packages you installed
at the end of the installation.

Are you going to be at the installfest, John?  If so I may hope to have
a Debian/sparc guy like yourself help me to get up to speed on Debian
and all the cool things like apt that set it apart from other distros.

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