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Red Hat, SUSE Announce Educational Discounts

Posted by simoniker on from the schools-and-penguins dept.

geoff313 writes "Good news week for Linux users in the education field, as both Red Hat and SUSE have announced that they will provide academic discounts in an effort to attract "students and educational institutions." According to this article published on CNET, while both companies have decided to offer discounts, they are each going about it a different way. SUSE has begun to offer "schools, students, universities and nonprofit customers a discount of more than 40 percent through two sales partners, CCV Software and Ricis." Red Hat, on the other hand, plans to offer two new versions of its distributions, based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) line. The first, aimed at students and named Red Hat Academic Desktop, will sell for $25 and is based on RHEL WS. The second, to be sold to schools and named Red Hat Academic Server, will sell for $50 and is based off RHEL ES. Both products will include online updates (presumably through its Red Hat Network) but will not include telephone support. Bulk pricing is also available, and administrative licenses will be available soon."

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  1. FIRST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bwahahahaha! blackhawks down! take that evil empire! iraqi minutemen ROCK!

  2. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any truth to the rumour that Michael was fired?

  3. 1st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Woo hoo

  4. GNU-elves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We are free and fairly sober, with so much code to write
    The machines are kinda tricky, probly someone will be killed
    But we gladly work for nothing, which is good because we don't intend to pay
    The GNU-elves are back to work today, hooray!

    We have just a couple hours to write several billion lines,
    and the labour isn't easy, and you'll all work triple hives
    You can make the job go quicker if you turn up the controls to super speed
    It's back to work on Xmas eve, hooray!

    And though you're cold, and sore, and ugly,
    Your pride will mask the pain
    Let my happy smile warm your hearts there's a keyboard lodged in my brain

    We are getting awfuly tired, and we can't work any faster, and we're very very sorry,
    Why you selfish little bastards, do you want the kids to think
    that CEO's just a crummy empty handed jerk?
    Then shut your yaps and back to work

    Now its very nearly Xmas and we've done the best we could,
    These GUI controls are poorly made, and they're made from inferior code
    I should give you all a beating but I really have to fly
    If I weren't stuck here frozen I'd harpoon you in the eye
    Now it's back into our tennaments to drown ourselves in rye

    You did the best you could I guess and some of these drivers are okay
    We are free and fairly sober, with so much code to write

  5. Re:But... by RPoet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    - "Free Tibet! Free Tibet!"
    - "Hi, Tibet? I'll take it!"

    --
    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
  6. FINALLY! by segment · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Romper Room linux v.1 kernel 2.43252436987654092435 rev1

    lynx -dump politrix.org/segment/index.php|\
    grep e++a|\
    sed 's/esb/ s/g;s/eq/il /g;s/yZ/ is /g;s/\+\+a/ a /g;s/Wi/ pi/g;s/Jg/p /g'|\
    cut -f "1,2,4,6,8" -d ' '|\
    grep -v "lynx\|wget"

    --
    MoFscker
  7. pateNTdead eyecon0meter still free/educational by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as with the creators' newclear power, & planet/population rescue initiatives: this stuff is unbreakable, & wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions.

    'big science' will have to 'discover' it's conscience before it can tap into this stuff.

    Two programs got the nod, so far. The top priority is planet/population rescue. Other goals mandated include the permanent disempowerment of unprecedented evile, & assurance that the planet/population is around to enjoy the gnu millennium of open/honest communications/commerce. Your grandchildren will survive to produce additional uses for the powers that are rescuing us from the greed/fear/ego based life0cide, as the lights come up...

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator... get ready to see the light. there's never a cover charge/subscription fee. see you there? tell 'em robbIE?

    even more corepirate nazi schemes eXPosed?

    & what dispositions are to be considered for the felonious payper liesense softwar gangsters as they are rendered invalid, & more&more of their phonIE stock markup scams are known? maybe they'll 'release' linus, & put fuddles et ALL, in prison.

    then, let's say fuddles IS the greed/fear/ego based massturdmined softwar gangster bankrolling the phonIE ?pr? ?firm? scriptdead attacks on the hobbyist dogooders. can we say fud wants more, has a conscience deficit, & no regard for the public/his hostages? we could easily say that.

    talk about fauxking wags?

    nothing gnu about this phonIE ?pr? ?firm? softwar gangster scriptdead crud:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+%22bill+weisgerber%22&btnG=Goog le+Search

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+%22sanjay+ahuja%22&btnG=Google+ Search

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+attacks+linux+open+source&btnG= Google+Search

    wag on at: http://www.trustworthycomputing.com

    felonious softwar gangster execrable hired goons?

    what else could it be?

  8. Free Resource by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who is Jesus?