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Red Hat and the Hobbiest

I have dabbled with RH Linux on and off for several years, I am no guru, its somthing i check out every so often and i have always been very impressed with certain applications (webservers, ftp, routing blah blah) and even on the "hobbiest" end of RH its been very handy to load RH on a harddrive then start messing with it from there, as for "free" free in linux means "freedom" i never took the word "free" and "linux" to mean "no cost" RH is a business, they want to make a living using a great OS and i like that about them, at the same time i do not use RH in a way that paying for it makes any sense, so anyway, charging for support and point and click updates seems fair and reasonable, if i am unwilling to pay for those services then i have the option of using the open source resources and doing my own support and updates at no monetary cost, although i must say when i was learning to compile a kernel it cost me alot in terms of time, no money changed hands but the hours i spent learning that 1 process was an incredible drain on personal time. anyway that said, if your a hobbiest then learning how to do things is half the fun and the point and click update structure shouldnt really be somthing you would expect to get for free. Anyway i have rambled on, and at the end of it all I have never seen RH as a home user OS, its always leaned towards business apps, Mandrake seems to be a very nice Home User Edition of linux and there are several others out there, if i were going to go for a soley "hobbiest/enthusiast" edition of linux i would go with slack or gentoo.
Cheers,
Rob

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