[PLUG] Upgrading from Red Hat 7.3 to ...

[Sandy Herring]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Evan Heidtmann wrote: 
> Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> 
> >Any reason not to use Red Hat's Enterprise offerings other than cost? 
> 
> Nope.  But the cost is prohibitive.  I am a low-cost operation (bought 
> the hardware used for $30).

Any reason one couldn't purchase /one/ copy of RHEL and install the
GPL'd stuff on all of their systems?

    http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/faq/#six

    Q: You mentioned licensing - what does this mean? I thought Linux
       was free.

    A: Except for a few components provided by third parties (for example,
       Java) all the code in Red Hat products is open source and
       licensed under the GPL (or a similar license, such as the LGPL).
       So you always have free access to the source code. In fact you
       can download it from our FTP servers at any time. However, Red
       Hat does not provide free access to the binaries of Red Hat
       Enterprise Linux, and these, combined with an annual subscription
       to Red Hat Network, access to upgrades, and a selected support
       services, are the components that Red Hat bundles into each Red
       Hat Enterprise Linux solution. Since every Red Hat Enterprise
       Linux product includes support for the system on which it is
       installed, Red Hat supplies the products with a per-system
       usage/support subscription. This simple model ensures that
       systems which use Red Hat Enterprise Linux are able to access the
       maintenance, services and product upgrades to which they are
       entitled. Of course, as mentioned before, this has no impact on
       your access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code.

Need binaries? Download the src.rpm's and 

    rpm -i *.src.rpm
    cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
    rpmbuild -bb *.spec

Sandy
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