On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 10:43, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 7/19/2003 23:26 -0400, you wrote: > >I've been considering whether or not to purchase a year's worth of Red Hat > >Network. Is it worth it? Being able to update my system at any time with > >just a push of a button would be nice, but is there a cheaper (A/K/A - > >free) alternative? > > There _are_ free alternatives; look into apt and its GUI synaptic. > > However, I suggest that you consider (a) whether you can afford $5/month > and (b) whether you want to use this as a tool to support Red Hat which is, > after all, a for-profit company who hopes to make a profit. If you believe > that the benefits you get from Red Hat are worth that $5/month, I urge you > to "vote with your dollar" and help them be more successful. > > Of course, if you _don't_ believe they provide such a service, spend your > hard-earned money elsewhere. It's just that I believe saving $1000 on > Windows 2000 licenses every time I add a server, and the rock-solid > stability of my RH servers, is more than worth the $5/month... I think it's > a screaming bloody bargain. > > Remember: you asked whether it was WORTH IT. My answer: hell, yes! > > I will happily second the above, especially if you also consider the additional advantage that paid-for RHN accounts have over "demo" ones: there is some kind of bandwidth guarantee for paid subscribers so that, whenever the RHN ftp site gets overloaded (recent example: the release of the newest "XFree86" packages), paid subscribers can still download updates at decent (privileged) speeds at any time.
And, please, do not forget: "free" as in "free speech" (rather than "free beer")!... > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, Software Engineer, SAP-R/3 specialist, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (ver.1.4) on Red Hat Linux (8.0), Athens, GREECE, cell-phone: +306946462857, fax: +302108054420, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
