On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:05:05 -0500, Jason Dixon <jason at dixongroup.net> wrote: > I'm curious as to why you're not supporting a business running RHEL > instead. Without RHEL, there would be no <insert_RHEL_clone_here> > distribution. Granted, the CentOS is a wonderful project, and I > continue using and supporting (see below) as long as it's useful to me, > but if you're going to support something with _money_, why not put it > where it will actually benefit the CentOS developers and community? > > Buying webspace from a company using CentOS supports nobody but the > company hosting your account. They paid no funds to further the > development of CentOS; Red Hat and its customers do. By spending > your money on a company that uses RHEL, you're helping to ensure that > RHEL is successful. So long as RHEL is successful (barring any changes > in policy from Red Hat), CentOS can continue to derive their releases > from RHEL. True that it does not put any funds into CentOS or Caosity.org. That's not my intent _here. My intent is to have a dedicated server preinstalled with CentOS on it. As I stated before, I am looking for an inexpensive solution. RHEL is great, but the licensing is expensive, and those costs get rolled into the monthly charges. I'm not going to be running a business on this server, so it's not like I'll have income there that would defray the cost of the server. It's just going to be a personal dev. box, with a few accounts for family and friends. Also, I like CentOS a lot! The more hosting providers that offer CentOS, means more users and a stronger community. And that should lead to more widespread acceptance of the project. -Ryan