On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Preston Crawford wrote: > From: Jason Malone > > > Nope. You could always buy RedHat. ... > don't want to go RHEL route and spend hundreds of dollars every > years when I'm not an enterprise user. .... > As I see it, there is no clear path for a developer on a budget > other than to use Fedora. That's why I hope Fedora remains > relatively stable. Cost of software as a ratio against hardware matters. I recently assembled a 'worthy' machine for about $300. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Basic Edition with Management Service costs $222.50/year for 1 system which is a mismatch in my mind. There are reals costs to RH and others so I know that they must charge something. One real cost is bandwidth another is simply the book keeping to cash a $20.00 check. This brave new world demands some inventive solutions where cost of software/hardware-cost results in a number that can stay at or below 10%. Now if I could only get the price of my ISP down! -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48 -a*t- yahoo-dot-com
