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Re: [OS:N:] Schools and Licensing concerns



On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 08:11, Johnathan Kupferer wrote:
> I'm working with npotechs.org, a Chicago based volunteer group offering 
> free software based assistance to area non-profits.  I'm trying to 
> figure out which distribution we should use.  I'd say RedHat hands down 
> but I'm confused about the licensing issues.  If I understand correctly, 
> we can install RH 8.0, but we'll only have support like the RedHat 
> Network available for another 9 months (or so) due to the new 12 month 
> support cycle.  There's no way I could pitch a 12 month upgrade cycle to 
> a school, so where do I go from here?

You know, upgrading between minor-version releases is not that hard...
With yum, for example, it only takes about 30 minutes (depending on the
number of packages you have installed).

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
www.phy.duke.edu/~icon/pubkey.asc

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