Althought Redhat might cost that much, there are still FREE
distributions of LINUX, I have Debian on my machine and you can get it
for free.
Plus, I did buy SuSE 6.1 and it cost me $35.00, however, the cost of
Windows98, which has nothing on it of any real value Costs $189.00 for a
complete install. SuSE 6.1 had over 1300 Applications with it. Hence, I
feel LINUX is a great deal. If we want more companies to provide
software, that is going to work on LINUX, we will have to pay something.
> have any of u checked out what linux is
> retailing for these days?
>
> it's like $70 or $80 for the cd!
>
> i got a new h/d and and i was gonna put
> rehat 6.0 on it. when i realized what
> they were selling "free" s/w for i decided
> to install 5.1 on the drive and download
> the rpm's i need.
>
> i understand that effort goes into packaging
> and distribution - but the people who should
> be getting the money (the programmers) are
> not!
>
> what's the deal???
>
> the rude
