[LUGSB] Movie Thursday, other good news

[Harlan Crystal]

> You can probably get wireless access there.


oh, is there wireless all over stony brook now?
i was constantly wishing for it when i was working in the library.

--harlan

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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Akshat Aranya wrote:

> As far as I could gather, Fedora should be good enough for the people who
> don't/can't pay for distributions.

Right... NOT.

Put it simply, it blows to have to pay $750 (for AMD64, anyway) per year
per box for security updates. Heck, even Microsoft will give you free
security updates. And I certainly don't care to pay for support that I'll
never use; security updates would be enough.

As for Fedora, it's little more than a twice-a-year release of what used
to be Rawhide. Certainly unacceptable to anyone except perhaps college
students who enjoy re-installing their OS bi-monthly (and who probably got
addicted to this while running Windows9x 8-)) after some botched partial
upgrade. Rabid gamers are the other category of masochists who enjoy this 
kind of thing and do it regularly, but then Linux isn't exactly a gamer's 
OS.

So right now RH won't offer anything that makes sense to me, as an SA.  
Both extremes that constitute their current offering are unacceptable. I'd
be willing to pay for the software, perhaps even for updates, but
certainly not at this rate.

I'm just wondering what's stopping someone from freely distributing the 
RHEL distro and updates. It's all GPL so licensing is not an issue -- RH 
even make all the SRPMS's available through FTP to anyone. You can't call 
the distro "Red Hat" because of their trademark, but you can certainly 
call it "Green LeafBlower"... :-)

Ion

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