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Red Hat News: Edu Prices, Progeny Support for 7.X
thx2001r writes "According to News.com, Matthew Szulik (perhaps driven by recent slashdot questions in this regard) of Red Hat has set educational pricing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation ($25 per year for students) and (RHEL AS) server ($50 per year for the schools). Here are the details of the versions available at educational discounts." And for business users wary of Red Hat's high-priced Enterprise version (and happy using an older version), iroberts writes "Beginning January 1, 2004, Progeny will offer software updates for users of Red Hat(R) Linux(R) 7.2 and 7.3. Pricing is $5 per machine per month; or a flat rate of $2,500 per month for unlimited machines. The Fedora Legacy Project is discussing how this will impact their work."
...because of up2date, it's just too good to manage to live without it, it automatically detects updates for installed software, downloads, and installs them, works great when a security patch is released.
I remember that it saved me the hassle when sendmail bug was discovered a while back...
The IT section color scheme sucks.
I'm surprised there hasn't been much info in the way of RedHat Enterprise Rebuild Projects. There is both a mailing list and a few projects that have succeeded.
c .at/
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ was the first freely distributable RedHat Enterprise 3.0 Rebuild
http://www.caosity.net/ was the second project to finish and distribute.
The mailing list archive is @ http://www.mail-archive.com/rhel-rebuild-l@uibk.a
Frankly, all it takes is a quick script to download, rpmbuild --rebuild updatepkg.src.rpm and install. I would recommend against doing this on machines that will be running Oracle or what not, but for most uses, this is an awesome approach the likes of which is impossible with proprietary software.
Can I get an eye poke?
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Becasue the 'official' iso images of RHL are thier copyright and they choose not to allow distribution of the iso. Thier CD layout is a new work of art and therefore isn't covered under the the same license(s) of the software found within.
As RH makes the binary packages publicly available (up to RHEL), which is not a requirement of the GPL but they were nice to the community in this respect. Becasue of this there's absolutly NOTHING stopping you me or anyone else from assembling our own iso layout and distributing it under GPL (or BSD or MyWhackyLicense for that matter).
It's well within thier right to do what they have done. I don't like nor do I have to.
Of course you're well within your rights to counteract this change and I see several members of the community already stepping-up to fill this void. This can only be a Good Thing(tm) long term though I'll be the first to admit it's going to be a bumpy ride for a bit.
It's the RedHat trademarks that are used to control re-distribution.
If you want to get the source, strip out the RH trademarks, compile/build everything, etc., you are free to so do.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
It says quite clearly in the firstboot app when you load RHE that redistribution of RHE is allowed as long as you remove all Red Hat logos.
I downloaded RHE from suprnova.org. I like the new LVM changes very much.
1.Get apt-rpm
http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/
2.This following will be the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fedora.list:
#--
# Apt sources.list from http://www.xades.com/proj/fedora_repos.html
# Fedora Core
rpm http://download.fedora.us/fedora fedora/1/i386 os updates
rpm http://download.fedora.us/fedora fedora/1/i386 stable unstable testing
# Livna 3rd party packages with questionable licenses -- use at your own risk
rpm http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/1/i386 stable unstable testing
# Dag Apt Repository for Red Hat Fedora Core 1
rpm http://apt.sw.be redhat/fc1/en/i386 dag
#--
Now do apt-get dist-upgrade
And you will have Fedora Core 1 from Red Hat 9.