[Sussex] Activating Red Hat Enterprise Linux

[Jon Fautley]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:50:03 +0100
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:

  
> Well, they're not *monopolizing* that. They're just keeping 
> non-customers out of the compiled binaries. They're very good about 
> providing source, or CentOS and Whitebox linuxes wouldn't exist, and
> the SRPM's for almost everything else are available for free download.

Compare that to other vendors that don't publically release their
source RPMs... :)

> But the steps they take to "manage" their software channels are a 
> serious pain, especially since the RedHat Network service on which
> they rely is in the US, with no European mirror, and the webservices
> are so slow and painful as to be unusable. Entirely dynamic content
> on every webpage with poor cross-linking and a Help option that
> doesn't actually let you report problems, anyone?

*whistles quietly*


*gets coat*


/j
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