Roger wrote:
>
> "Markku Kolkka" <markku.kolkka@iki.fi> wrote in message news:cje8tb$g84$2@
phys-news1.kolumbus.fi...
> 
>
> Oh-no, not RHEL.  Can't afford anything too pricey.
> Is Red Hat trying to charge outrageously for
> software that is largely contributed?  If so, BOOOO!!!
>

They're not charging for the software, they're charging for support.
You can build it yourself, but there are also distributions that have
done that already, such as White Box Enterprise Linux (which is what I
run - http://www.whiteboxlinux.org).  That's what I'm currently running.

If you're interested, right now they're working on rebuilding all the
SRPMs from RHEL 3.0 Update 3 - you can download "Respin 1" then use yum
to update to "Respin 2", or you can hang out for a couple of weeks until
the .iso files for "Respin 2" are done.


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