Updating?

[John Seth]

Slackware, one of the oldest distributions known, and not the most
user-friendly installs, is still free to download and update. In recent
years, Slackware has released many updates for security flaws and such. 
New software versions are usually kept up to date in their beta (-current)
and testing venues.

It's not for everyone, but it's still free... and I've been running it for
years with my own compiled Dovecot (thank Fedora Core for that switch, I
used to use Courier IMAP) and Postfix. I've never had a more rock-solid
system.  Gentoo is next on my list since the newest release uses a
'universal' cd install, no more stage 1/2/3 from what I've read/seen so
far ...

  - Tony


> Gentoo is free. That is except for your time to install it. No fees and
> no subscription charge.
> Bob
>
> Ron Maggio wrote:
>> I see that the distributions are switching to a annual subscription for
>> updating, what distros are then still offering free updates other then
>> Debian, I think? So which flavors are still truelly free to use?
>>
>> Ron:)
>>