RE: redhat/oracle

No. But the free download of RH9 looks to end in March 04. Then there will only be the three pay versions starting at USD $179.00. All support for previous versions is GONE. Sounds like another Micro$oft in the birthing stage.

Rodd

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 03:24, Mark Leith wrote:
> OK, this is even more confusing to me. According to the following page:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/download/products.html
>
> "You can download Red Hat Linux for free from http://ftp.redhat.com or
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com. To access the Red Hat FTP site, use anonymous as you
> user name and your email address as the password."
>
> I actually downloaded Red Hat 9 on Friday. That download (in iso format) is
> available from the above FTP (which is pretty overloaded lately), and also
> available from:
>
> ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/
>
> So, do I have to pay a license to use it?
>
> BTW, ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ has to be one of the best FTP sites in
> the world - bookmark it! ;)
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Mladen Gogala
> Sent: 04 November 2003 04:59
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I'll try my luck with SuSE. It apparently has IBM support. Red Hat is
> starting to act badly and brings memories of one former Xenix reseller
> which made fortune by selling operating system written by IBM.
>
> On 2003.11.03 23:24, Jared Still wrote:
> > This is news to me. RH will no longer let you download Linux for free?
> >
> > hmmm....
> >
> > Sure enough, look at http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/rhel/ws/
> >
> > The cheapest version is $179.00 US. Looks like the next version
> > for me will be Gentoo.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:54, Joe Testa wrote:
> > > Well with RH latest ordeal of jumping out of simple ISOs and basically
> > > no more free software, what is oracle's stand on running on RH?, the
> > > paid version only from now on and those linux users out there, what are
> > > WE going to do?
> > >
> > > Looking to see if i need to spend money before end of year for tax
> > > write-off :)
> > >
> > > joe
> > >
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