Not only have I had to read tons of this man's writing, but, I've memorized large chunks of it and can recite it in Middle English. What could be more fun?
The Fedora project will be picking up where RHL left off. Like Debian, it will be community supported and completely FREE software, but still connected to and supported by RedHat.
I rejoice. I think this was a brilliant move!
I'm psyched!
Of course, it means I can't pick up a box set at Staples anymore, but, who cares?
Oh..then again, it was nice to see Linux at Staples, and I'm sure they won't carry RHE.
But they can still carry Suse and Mandrake, which I have seen there...
All the same, I think this was smart for Redhat and will have positive results in the community with the Fedora project.
I concur.
I am a middle school teacher and a single father with a 4 year old. We live in subsidized housing.
We have a ADSL connection.
Can you imagine how much money I save in software costs now that I can download open source software?
On a dial-up I would be kicked before gnucash came in, let alone an office suite like OpenOffice.org.
I may pay $29.99/mo for it, compared to $20.00 for dialup, but hte extra nine dollars is worth it for that alone, not to mention the access to information.
My 4 year old daughter has her own computer (built entirely from spare parts, mind you). She play lots of games on it, types, manipulates images and surfs the internet. She has better technical skills than many of my new 7th graders (which changes before the become 8th gaders, mind you).
We cut our expenses by not having frivolities like cable television or caller ID onthe phone, things for which I can't justify the expense.
ADSL I can justify, however.
I have to lend my support to the Fink suggestion.
I run 10.2.6 on my G3 700mhz with 640mb.
I can run the X11 with Openoffice.org for OSX, OSX apps and KDE all at the same time and still can't even make her breathe hard.
There's some truth to the rumors about the Mac processors, I guess, because she runs faster than my homemade P3 1ghz with 512mb ram running redhat.
(Of course, they both run circles around the windblows garbage in my classroom at school that crashes at least 2 or 3 times per week causing my students to lose their work...)
I am unaware of the mentioned issues with Imagemagick, but really, if you want to manipulate images, Gimp runs fantastic in KDE with Fink, much smoother and faster than even the MacGimp with XDarwin, and is a more powerful program by fathoms and fathoms.
I did a ProDev unti for my fellow staff last Friday and ran OpenOffice.org, KEduca and Keynote and Inertnet Explorer all simultaneously. Talk about Feeling the Power!
(IE is the only MS software I ever use, and I only use it at school, btw, because it plays nicer with the garbage NT network at school than my fave browsers, Moz or Konq).
Tony Baldwin
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Not only have I had to read tons of this man's writing, but, I've memorized large chunks of it and can recite it in Middle English.
What could be more fun?
The Fedora project will be picking up where RHL left off. Like Debian, it will be community supported and completely FREE software, but still connected to and supported by RedHat. I rejoice. I think this was a brilliant move! I'm psyched! Of course, it means I can't pick up a box set at Staples anymore, but, who cares? Oh..then again, it was nice to see Linux at Staples, and I'm sure they won't carry RHE. But they can still carry Suse and Mandrake, which I have seen there... All the same, I think this was smart for Redhat and will have positive results in the community with the Fedora project.
Well. You can run BSD or Linux on an Apple machine. Apparently M$ is trying to make it so you can't on a PC.
I concur. I am a middle school teacher and a single father with a 4 year old. We live in subsidized housing. We have a ADSL connection. Can you imagine how much money I save in software costs now that I can download open source software? On a dial-up I would be kicked before gnucash came in, let alone an office suite like OpenOffice.org. I may pay $29.99/mo for it, compared to $20.00 for dialup, but hte extra nine dollars is worth it for that alone, not to mention the access to information. My 4 year old daughter has her own computer (built entirely from spare parts, mind you). She play lots of games on it, types, manipulates images and surfs the internet. She has better technical skills than many of my new 7th graders (which changes before the become 8th gaders, mind you). We cut our expenses by not having frivolities like cable television or caller ID onthe phone, things for which I can't justify the expense. ADSL I can justify, however.
I have to lend my support to the Fink suggestion. I run 10.2.6 on my G3 700mhz with 640mb. I can run the X11 with Openoffice.org for OSX, OSX apps and KDE all at the same time and still can't even make her breathe hard. There's some truth to the rumors about the Mac processors, I guess, because she runs faster than my homemade P3 1ghz with 512mb ram running redhat. (Of course, they both run circles around the windblows garbage in my classroom at school that crashes at least 2 or 3 times per week causing my students to lose their work...) I am unaware of the mentioned issues with Imagemagick, but really, if you want to manipulate images, Gimp runs fantastic in KDE with Fink, much smoother and faster than even the MacGimp with XDarwin, and is a more powerful program by fathoms and fathoms. I did a ProDev unti for my fellow staff last Friday and ran OpenOffice.org, KEduca and Keynote and Inertnet Explorer all simultaneously. Talk about Feeling the Power! (IE is the only MS software I ever use, and I only use it at school, btw, because it plays nicer with the garbage NT network at school than my fave browsers, Moz or Konq). Tony Baldwin