[TriLUG] Red Hat 7.3 - pricing suggestions for the lurkers @ RHAT

[Chris Knowles]

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 06:58 am, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 06:15, Christopher Knowles wrote:
<SNIP>
> > My strategy is this.  I pay the $60 for at least one of each major
> > revision. In this case it will be 7.3, but I usually upgrade the box with
> > one other revision.  I'm not really upgrade happy.  And if you look at
> > the cost of upgrading windows... yeesh.  You're paying for a full copy,
> > not just an upgrade.  So if RH is competing with M$ it's a fair price
> > point.
>
> To be fair though, Microsoft comes out with a major OS upgrade like
> every 2 or 3 years.  Upgrade costs for staying on top of the Microsoft
> NT family, for example, may be less expensive than Red Hat Linux
> upgrades.  A single Windows NT-family "upgrade" is pretty expensive, but
> also pretty infrequent.
>
> I do like the frequent release strategy that RHAT uses.  I do wish that
> the last few x.0 releases were called "rawhide" but that's a subject for
> a different thread.  ;-)  Anyway, if you add up the cost of upgrading
> Red Hat every time they come out with an upgrade it is pretty staggering
> (for home users).

And you'll note that I recommended getting only one of each major revision 
cycle.  That'll even out the time period to be roughly equivalent to M$.

I agree with your assessement in that the release I pay for is NEVER the x.0 
release.  (In fact I've never run those on a machine I care about.  But I do 
like seeing what's in store.)  And not just rawhide, but perhaps "colt", or 
"tenderfoot"... :)

Unfortunately, software costs a good bit of money... and I really can't 
begrudge RH $60.  It's good software, generally it works, and there's a lot 
of stuff in the distro.  Unlike M$, where I often coming away feeling like 
I've had something ripped from me...

CJK