> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alvin Oga
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 10:46 PM
>
> hi ya roeland
>
> > Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> >
> > Welcome to binary-only RPM's. You get the same thing by
> downloading and
> > building the latest apache, then adding OpenSSL and
> mod_perl. It's a LOT
> > less work. Take the RedHat 6.0 Secure Server back for a
> refund or use
> > the CD as a $75US coaster.
>
> nah... rh-5.2 secure server was around $75...
> the new rh-6.0 secure server runs $150.... ( see the redhat site )
Okay, I stand corrected ... it's a $150US coaster.<grin> I didn't think
they had the gall to charge that much for a pre-compiled binary from an
open-source release. I tried to get Caldera to do the same thing, but
they're spooked by the ITAR regulations.
I doubt that it's better than "Apache/1.3.6 Ben-SSL/1.32 (Unix)
mod_perl/1.18 " and I can do my own certs.
Further, you're supposed to build secure software from sources, just to
make sure you haven't been "trojaned". Pure binary releases aren't
secure. Apache-SSL and SSH make a nice match, especially when you take a
known-hosts entry and convert it to PEM format.
> and their corporate tech support is only $60,000/yr !!!!
>
> as has every distro pricing of cdrom when 95%(?) of all related s/w is
> "free" off the net...
