Category: Linux

Before you run away screaming, “Not another Anti-RedHat Rant!!” hold your horses and hang in there.
Most are based in some RedHat will be or is Microsoft. Or something about how they should be more like Debian. Or even sillier RedHat will make things more consistent by altering KDE to be more GNOME, consistency heaven forbid. I don’t have a problem with any of the above, well maybe if they were more Debian but I digress.
The problem that I face is actually wanting to pay RedHat for the 8.0 but damm’d if they have made it way too confusing. See what I want is to buy some CDs for the initial installation and have access to the “up2date” functionality, think Debian apt-get or WindowsUpdate but for everything on the system, for the run of the 8.X Series or at least a year seems resonable. Now it seems like something like this product and service combo should cost something like $20 – $100(I’m in a generous mood). Now enters the problem how do I get that option, or something similar?
There is RedHat Linux 8.0 Professional, RedHat Linux 8.0 Personal and some mention of Red Hat Network Basic Service but as far as I can tell the only real difference between the Pro and Personal is $110 in price and 30 vs. 60 days access to “Red Hat Network Basic Service” but oh, wait. One can get a year of the Red Hat Network for $60. So for my high end of $100 I can get what I want, some CDs and up2date for a year.
So where is the rant if I found what I wanted, though it is maximum of my price range? Well it was way too complicated and confusing to figure something so simple out. Honestly if it wasn’t for being so pissed and writing a rant I would have blown off RedHat and went over to Cheap*Bytes and picked up Debian CDs. Still might.
It just seems that the more RedHat gets it’s act together the more find something else to screw up and that I guess is what I’m really ranting about.

Before you run away screaming, “Not another Anti-RedHat Rant!!” hold your horses and hang in there.
Most are based in some RedHat will be or is Microsoft. Or something about how they should be more like Debian. Or even sillier RedHat will make things more consistent by altering KDE to be more GNOME, consistency heaven forbid. I don’t have a problem with any of the above, well maybe if they were more Debian but I digress.
The problem that I face is actually wanting to pay RedHat for the 8.0 but damm’d if they have made it way too confusing. See what I want is to buy some CDs for the initial installation and have access to the “up2date” functionality, think Debian apt-get or WindowsUpdate but for everything on the system, for the run of the 8.X Series or at least a year seems resonable. Now it seems like something like this product and service combo should cost something like $20 – $100(I’m in a generous mood). Now enters the problem how do I get that option, or something similar?
There is RedHat Linux 8.0 Professional, RedHat Linux 8.0 Personal and some mention of Red Hat Network Basic Service but as far as I can tell the only real difference between the Pro and Personal is $110 in price and 30 vs. 60 days access to “Red Hat Network Basic Service” but oh, wait. One can get a year of the Red Hat Network for $60. So for my high end of $100 I can get what I want, some CDs and up2date for a year.
So where is the rant if I found what I wanted, though it is maximum of my price range? Well it was way too complicated and confusing to figure something so simple out. Honestly if it wasn’t for being so pissed and writing a rant I would have blown off RedHat and went over to Cheap*Bytes and picked up Debian CDs. Still might.
It just seems that the more RedHat gets it’s act together the more find something else to screw up and that I guess is what I’m really ranting about.