[Preston] Red Hat 8

[Duane Phillips]

First of all welcome back to a more civilised part of
the country ;o)

Why not check out www.cheeplinux.co.uk and look at
their cheep linux 8.0 it'll cost you a tenner and is
"similar" to red hat 8.0.

On the note of pricing where are the big distos going?
I had a call this morning to give me a price on a
server I am about to commission for a client. I was
asked which OS I wanted to be loaded on it naturally I
stated I wanted Red Hat. The price I was quoted was
£649 for a base server edition!!!

Whats going on surely this isn't in the spirit of
Linux and we're in danger being dragged down the
corporate big boy route. If the big distros insist on
pricing like this we may as well put our hands up sign
the surrender document and side with Microsoft (I
know, I know I'll go and wash my mouth out later)

Regards 

Duane S Phillips
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>    1. Introduction and Cheeky Request ;) (Marley
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> Message: 1
> From: "Marley Jnr" <marley@marleysworldtour.com>
> To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:57:56 -0000
> Subject: [Preston] Introduction and Cheeky Request
> ;)
> Reply-To: preston@mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Hello List Members,
> 
> I have recently moved back into the North West
> (Bolton to be exact) having
> spent the last 7 years terrorising Cambridgeshire
> and other parts of the
> world.
> 
> My name is Martyn Ashworth and I have been employed
> in various guises on
> Linux (and AIX/SCO) systems since I was 16 years old
> (am now 25).
> 
> Took (and passed) my RHCE two years ago and am now
> working on various JSP
> projects both Open Source and contracted.
> 
> Anyway, now for the cheeky part ;)
> 
> I have found my newly burnt distro (RH8.0 physche)
> to be vandalised (looks
> like a compass point has been dragged through CD1)
> and wondered if any of
> the members could help me by supplying a nicely
> burnt CD1 (or a CD for me to
> copy).
> 
> I am prepared to meet any costs / travelling / beer
> etc... as I am currently
> developing on a Windows 98 OS (argh - although it
> lets me play the Sims) and
> it is slowly driving me insane!
> 
> 
> P.S.
> 
> Personal Hobbies include Programming, More
> Programming, Learning Kernel
> Hacking, World Travelling and Real Ale (CAMRA
> member).
> 
> Hope you can help?
> 
> ------------------------------
>         Marley_Junior
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> e: marley@marleysworldtour.com
>  w: www.marleysworldtour.com
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