OT: Linux flavors...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Chad McWilliams wrote:
> > > YOU is *nice*.  The only thing I see problems with concerns 
> > non-SuSE 
> 
> That's the other question I had:  Does Suse charge for access to the
> updates/errata?  I know RedHat charged something like 65/year/machine,
> which I was fine with.  Then when they dropped RHL, it was
> 750/year/machine with RHEL, which I thought was ridiculous.  I use some
> of these machine for very basic functions.  I'm not paying that much per
> year for a machine that acts as a router, or a storage drive.
> 
> How does Suse handle it under Suse Professional?  (I notice that Suse
> Linux Server has a yearly maintenance fee as well for access to
> updates/errata, best I can tell)

They mirror their update servers on a bunch of edu sites, and we've
installed, probably at least 5 or 6 machines from the same set of
disks; I can't see that it's serialized; it doesnt' seem to have asked
for an S/N, anyway.  And I suspect you could rsync their master update
server and point your installs at your own, if you wanted to, though I
haven't looked into that very deeply as yet.

Welcome to the list, BTW, Chad.  Sounds like you've got your schidt
together, dude.  We get a bit loud at times; don't let us bother you.

:-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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