[PLUG] Reviews of RedHat 8.0 - is it worth $150?

[Kyle Hayes]

On Friday 18 October 2002 17:10, Preston Crawford wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Bill Thoen wrote:
> > We do want server capability, but are the improvements worth the
> > price? Is it going to install on this hardware anyway? Any
> > caveats about doing this that anyone here is aware of?
>
> Boy, I don't know. Depends on if Red Hat is your bag. I tried it and
> stuck with SuSE, which costs half as much.

Hmm same here.  I won a copy of SuSE 5.0 or something roughly that old in a 
raffle at a Linux user group meeting.  Stuck with it ever since then.  The 
online update stuff has worked quite well (and I don't have to pay a fee 
for access).  SuSE's got several mirrors that are automatically downloaded 
into the update app.

I've never had any problems with getting things with the online update.  
Sometimes the speeds are slow (I managed to do an update the day that SuSE 
8.1 was released), but I got everything.  I didn't even know that RH cost 
money for guaranteed access.  That would have made me run in the other 
direction if I hadn't already been a SuSE fan.  I hope that SuSE doesn't 
start doing that.

Best,
Kyle