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Is the Update service worth the 60 Dollars?

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Bazoukas:
I went to update and it said that I need to buy an entitlement. In my case it would be 60 dollars a year.

  Is it worth it?

Stryker:
I didn't have a problem, back when I didn't have an entitlement it just said wait until it wasn't so busy, so I did. But when I bought 7.1 it came with the entitlement. And no it isn't worth it, just check the updates you need and ftp to a mirror at http://redhat.com/mirrors.html (I think that's the right link).

www.unixsucks.com:
I don't want to look like a fool but do I understand correctly that I need to pay money to get updates for RedHat?

Bazoukas:
They dont force you to pay or do it. You can Dowload all the updates for free.

 Which inlcude updates from the kernel to ALL other software. From Apache, SQL, Instant messangers,KDE, GNOME, you name it. We are talking about 1gig+ of upadates and it includes all software that comes with RedHat.And with no reboot.

  You can select what packages you want to update. I did the full monty and it was about 800MB (i think. Am not sure).
I did it once with 7.3 via Gnome but it didnt ask me for entiltment.

 This is just a feature that makes it extremly easy for the users. You can go the other way though, check the updtates page and download them your self.

[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

www.unixsucks.com:
Ok, so say you have current OS for 3 years without major OS upgrades, just updates. It'll cost you 180$ which would cost 0$ with Windows XP, but you pay $199 for Windows XP upgrade, plus you get support from Microsoft and as far as I understand nothing for RedHat without additional fee.
Bearing in mind that people here target Linux not only to servers but to the desktops as well where a lot of users don't really know what FTP means I don't really see how TCO for Linux can be lower first and second why Linux would be prefered solution. Explain me what am I missing here.

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