[Sussex] Activating Red Hat Enterprise Linux

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Jon Fautley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:50:03 +0100
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Compare that to other vendors that don't publically release their
> source RPMs... :)
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>> 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?
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> *whistles quietly*
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> *gets coat*
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> /j
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Hry, Jon, if you know where to direct those concerns, please feel free 
to contact them for me and send them my name. I've got commercial 
support contractes for RHEL 5Server, but am finding the bug submission 
tools to be extremely painful.