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>> From: kbarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Yes, I understand that if your goal is to create a no-cost
>>perfect copy of the binary product that it's not as easy as
>>downloading an image and burning a CD. As I pointed out,
>>this is already true for the other products also.
I may be going out on a limb here.. but if I was a contributing author to
the HA source tree (which once I get some time, I plan to be), I would want
a stipulation included that would force RedHat to allow free downloads of
the iso with the HA patches included.
I don't need support from RedHat -- and I do plan on installing the HA
software myself..
But when you create something based on open source software, you should be
releasing all of
it for free download.. even the iso of the install cd.
Support is a different story... Charge for that..
-Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: kbarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:kbarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Keith Barrett
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 12:10 PM
To: Jon Oringer; lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
piranha-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Redhat HA Download?
Jon Oringer wrote:
>
> is there an CD-ROM ISO for the Redhat HA distro with the "Install Cluster
> System" option
> which automatically installs the patched kernel, etc.?
There are no ISO's for download and none planned.
The HA product is simply Red Hat Linux 6.2 + the errata +
piranha + ipvsadm.
Red Hat does not produce ISO's for enhanced product. You cannot
download Red Hat Linux 6.2.16-2 (which is just Red Hat 6.2 + errata),
you have to download 6.2 and apply the errata.
The same is true for the HA product. You have to downlaod Linux 6.2 +
errata + piranha + ipvsadm. You then end up with the HA product.
Applying these changes produces a system with 100% of the
functionality of the HA product, except that the packages
"not installed by default" will of course have been installed.
We could, I suppose, provide a list of those and you could
just do RPM uninstalls... Perhaps I'll post that on the web
site.
>
> RedHat does sell this for $3000 (support).
Last I looked, the price was $1995, which is over $1k lower
than your quote.
> I would imagine there would be an ISO (since it is open source).
All of the source code is online. Open source does not mean that
ISO images of your CDs must be online (in fact, since there are
source CDs in the box, none of the source is even required to be
online at all).
However you are not even talking about the source CD are you? You
are referring to an ISO copy of the BINARY CD, which is not a
requirement of open "source" at all, just that the binaries
promoted are created from the source supplied.
Yes, I understand that if your goal is to create a no-cost
perfect copy of the binary product that it's not as easy as
downloading an image and burning a CD. As I pointed out,
this is already true for the other products also.
The odds are that if you are talented enough to not need the
product support, then you are also talented enough to create
the product from the source posted :-)
--
Keith Barrett
Red Hat Inc. HA Team
kbarrett@xxxxxxxxxx
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