[Preston] Red Hat 8

[Richard Wellstead]

Hehehe,

 Or www.uselinux.co.uk... my own site... I live in Preston... so you 
should get stuff really quickly!

 I'm gonna try to get to the next meeting...

Richard



On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:29, Duane Phillips wrote:
> 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
> > Jnr)
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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
> >
> > 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
> > ------------------------------
> > e: marley@marleysworldtour.com
> >  w: www.marleysworldtour.com
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