I would have to believe that since Linux is being developed by a world-wide collection of programmers, none of which actually "owns" the code provided, that Linux itself must be exempt from any trade or export barriers.
As the questioner pointed out, it is very easy to access a distribution (ANY distribution) of Linux from anywhere in the world. By developing a product to run on Linux, you should be fairly certain that your prospective customer's already have FREE access to the Linux base itself.
The majority of Linux installations out there are RedHat 5.2 (or older). If you've ever seen Novell courses by third parties (colleges), they taught 3.x right up until this last year, because that's what is out there. It is nice to know the newest of the new, but it is better to know what your client/job is using. I'm sure that during this course, there will be enough material to show you generically how to administer "Linux". Going from RedHat 5.x to 6.0 should be a no-brainer afterward.
While it's nice to know that there will Finally be some educational services in Canada, what about their branches in the rest of the world? Or are we the Guinnea Pigs?
They also just call it an "education", so this is probably not a certification oriented project. I wonder if Dan York and the Linuxcare.com crew have looked at this yet?
Ok, I'll sit corrected. I remember that now, but my newer Alpha system has a fan large enough to cool a typical four cylinder engine bolted to the CPU.
With Intel running very quickly into the x86 architectural brick wall, and Merced proving to be the CPU equivalent of Winbloze 2.000, I think Alphas have a good chance of regaining some market share, at least server side. Especially since they run Linux faster than anything Intel has put out so far.
This company has some *KILLER* Alpha boxen, they have enough horsepower to blow away *ANY* PII,PIII box on the market. And the kicker is, that they use industr standard peripherals! Standard PCI Video cards, SCSI controllers, standard DIMMS, standard USB stuff... My Alpha board is very similar to my fiance's ASUS P2B Intel based board.
Now I think you should check on that CPU fan thing though. Mine has a honking HUGE fan on it! And, well... All CPU's use IRQ's, it's just up to the BIOS/Operating System, as to how they are implemented. You are correct in that my board assignes an IRQ to a slot though, not a peripheral.
Linux is the ONLY reason I bought an Alpha. Mind you it is a clone box, not Compaq/Digital, but nevertheless, it WAS an Alpha CPU sale.
I would never have comsidered buying this system for the likes of Winbloze NT (Neutered Technology) I have to say that I'm EXTREMELY happy with the system.
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I would have to believe that since Linux is being developed by a world-wide collection of programmers, none of which actually "owns" the code provided, that Linux itself must be exempt from any trade or export barriers.
As the questioner pointed out, it is very easy to access a distribution (ANY distribution) of Linux from anywhere in the world. By developing a product to run on Linux, you should be fairly certain that your prospective customer's already have FREE access to the Linux base itself.
Michael J. Ball
Open Source Who's Who
GRIN
A month and a half, eh?
You mean something like 47.5 days???
That's the Standard "NT Resource Flush Feature" at play.
;-)
Michael J. Ball
Open Source Who's Who
According to the Linux link at http://www.software.ibm.com/speech/
Lesstif is a requirement. Does it have to be your operational window manager???
They also have a gtk based demo, so I'm confused.
Michael J. Ball
Open Source Who's Who
When asked about the y2k issue...
"Because 2k is *more* than enough cache for anybody!"
Michael J. Ball
Open Source Who's Who
The majority of Linux installations out there are RedHat 5.2 (or older). If you've ever seen Novell courses by third parties (colleges), they taught 3.x right up until this last year, because that's what is out there. It is nice to know the newest of the new, but it is better to know what your client/job is using.
I'm sure that during this course, there will be enough material to show you generically how to administer "Linux". Going from RedHat 5.x to 6.0
should be a no-brainer afterward.
Michael J. Ball
Open Source Who's Who
While it's nice to know that there will Finally be some educational services in Canada, what about their branches in the rest of the world? Or are we the Guinnea Pigs?
They also just call it an "education", so this is probably not a certification oriented project. I wonder if Dan York and the Linuxcare.com crew have looked at this yet?
Michael J. Ball
Open Source Who's Who
Ok, I'll sit corrected. I remember that now, but my newer Alpha system has a fan large enough to cool a typical four cylinder engine bolted to the CPU.
With Intel running very quickly into the x86 architectural brick wall, and Merced proving to be the CPU equivalent of Winbloze 2.000, I think Alphas have a good chance of regaining some market share, at least server side. Especially since they run Linux faster than anything Intel has put out so far.
This company has some *KILLER* Alpha boxen, they have enough horsepower to blow away *ANY* PII,PIII box on the market. And the kicker is, that they use industr standard peripherals! Standard PCI Video cards, SCSI controllers, standard DIMMS, standard USB stuff... My Alpha board is very similar to my fiance's ASUS P2B Intel based board.
Now I think you should check on that CPU fan thing though. Mine has a honking HUGE fan on it! And, well... All CPU's use IRQ's, it's just up to the BIOS/Operating System, as to how they are implemented. You are correct in that my board assignes an IRQ to a slot though, not a peripheral.
Linux is the ONLY reason I bought an Alpha. Mind you it is a clone box, not Compaq/Digital, but nevertheless, it WAS an Alpha CPU sale.
I would never have comsidered buying this system for the likes of Winbloze NT (Neutered Technology)
I have to say that I'm EXTREMELY happy with the system.