[OT] Linux leaders offer education discount
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Sun Nov 16 15:22:27 UTC 2003
On 16 Nov 2003, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 03:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > if that's the case, how many students are going to be interested
> > in the more stable but certainly older technology of RHEL on their
> > desktop? to which release of RH does RHEL currently correspond?
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Probably quite a few grad students, post-docs, and professors will be
> interested. Theres a lot of researchers using Linux for data reduction
> who really don't care about bleeding-edge stuff. They just want a
> stable, secure, and up-2-date platform for their desktops, servers, and
> beowulf clusters.
>
> For instance, we have dozens of users matching that description in our
> department.
ok, points well taken, i withdraw my reservations about the academic
desktop product. i guess there really *are* people who don't get their
kicks by trying to figure out why their USB mouse doesn't work any
more. hard to believe. :-P
rday
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