Fedora vs RHEL

[Thomas Cameron]

On 04/12/2013 02:14 PM, Tethys wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you install Fedora, what you get for support is, essentially,
>> answers people are willing to give you for free here, in forums, in
>> IRC, and so on.  If you install CentOS or SL, I believe the answer is
>> roughly the same.  This does not necessarily make CentOS or SL bad
>> options (leaving out Fedora for lifecycle reasons others have already
>> made clear).  You, and your boss, have to be willing to live with that
>> definition of support.
>
> The annoying thing is, I'd *gladly* pay Red Hat for support, if they'd
> charge me a sensible amount. I'm not a multinational corporation. I'm
> a home user with a single server, but it's important to me. It's
> currently running CentOS and has a number of problems. I'd install
> RHEL in a heartbeat to get support for it. But given the minimum Red
> Hat support charge is several thousand, it's simply out of my price
> range :-(

Horse feathers.

You can get a personal, developer subscription for $99:

https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/rhel_developer_suite.html

Alternatively, you can get a self-support subscription for commercial 
use for $349:

https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html

RHEL does not start at thousands of dollars, that's just false.

Thomas