[lug] SuSE vs. RedHat distro differences

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

My statement was regarding the professional releases.

I did NOT want to make SuSE or Linux look bad.  There are many CHOICES here
and you can certainly get the base distro from SuSE as a free download.  And
for those who want a free distro there is Debian - a very high quality and
free distro.  My message was simply food for thought.

Linux itself is FREE of cost.

Ferdinand

John Karns wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Ferdinand Schmid said:
>
> > RedHat currently seems to publish all of their software on the net.
> > What you get extra for purchasing a distro is support.  Now I haven't
> > every received any real help from RH so they last saw money from me over
> > three years ago.  I am sure their support has improved significantly.
> > Anyway - SuSE releases 3 distros per year, that is $210 per year for the
> > upgrades.  FTP however doesn't cost me anything since I have a T1
> > available.  If I only have one system to maintain then SuSE is more
> > expensive than Microsoft as far as the license goes.
> > It may be that SuSE is making their money mostly on sales where RH is
> > more focused on charging for support.
>
> I'm not sure about the current situation with SuSE since they're now
> offering a "pro" version (includes both the regular 6 CD set plus a
> single DVD), but as of ver. 6.4 I was buying it at CompUSA for $30 - which
> would make it $90 for the 3 annual releases.
>
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> John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net
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