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Affordable Home Backups for 10-100G Systems?
MichaelJames asks: "Ok, I have my MP3's streaming, all our digital pictures up, and a file server running on one machine in the basement. What would be the best way to do simple backups of the system and data? Get a tape drive Get a CDRW or DVDRW to backup the MP3 and pics, but use the old Zip drive for the file server data?" With drives in the 10-20 gig range only getting smaller and less expensive, what are we to do for backups, that have yet to scale well in the same range. For home systems with up to 100G of storage, what do you use to back up that much data, with a solution that's affordable to the average computer user? Have DVD writers become cheap enough for serious consideration as a backup media?
Hmm... Lets see... Didn't Slashdot used to report every little violation of the GPL they could find?
But now that Red Hat is doing it, Slashdot refuses to tell the story. In fact, I don't believe I've ever had a submission get rejected so quickly.
Perhaps Slashdot is Red Hat's little bitch.
But anyway, here's the story. Red Hat is not allowing people to distribute Red Hat Linux. If you do, they insist you call it something else. A clear violation of the GPL if I ever saw one. I guess if its someone like Red Hat or VA, they can violate the GPL as much as they want and Slashdot could care less.
And before anyone tries the obvious rebuttal, I'm perfectly aware that Red Hat owns its own name. However, they licenced their software under the GPL, a license that permits redistribution within its rules. And if the GPL says I have the right to distribute Red Hat, then I have a right to distribute Red Hat. You certainly don't see Apache and Perl being called something else because someone else distributes it. Red Hat is trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.
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