Re: RH9 - setting up to a print server????

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Brenton
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:53, Brian Riley (maillist) wrote: This would defeat the whole purpose of having the print server, Then go with the first setup I described. I only mentioned SMB because its also an option. C ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:55:14 -0400 Tom Fogal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why does one need support for a[/any] linux distribution? With respect to the other posts, I think that it is important for Linux to be commercially available. By this I mean

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-06 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:17:57 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, at 7:46pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian. Long release cycles, stable, testing, and bleeding edge versions all available for the same price ($0), and a ton of community support :) Unfortunately,

Re: Proposed Software Monopoly Press Release

2003-10-06 Thread Richard Stallman
To the Citizens Against Government Waste, the state officials of Massachusetts, and others Paul Lussier's defense of the Massachusetts initiative for free software does not go far enough, because it endorses a grave error: the idea that government decisions about software should be based only

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-06 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:17:57AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's at least one project that exists to independently build binary RPMs for RHEL, from the SRPMs which RHS must, by law, provide. See: http://www2.uibk.ac.at/zid/software/unix/linux/rhel-rebuild-l.html

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-06 Thread bscott
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, at 1:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RH only needs to provide the source for software with GPL, LGPL, or similar licenses. A, good point. Red Hat, so far, has always maintained that they will provide source for all of their Open Source products, even non-GPL ones, but

Hosstraders report

2003-10-06 Thread bscott
Hello list, As mentioned previously, GNHLUG had a booth at the Fall 2003 Hosstraders. We sold a lot of Linux CDs -- approximately 130 discs. Any money left over after expenses will be added to the GNHLUG General Fund. (I'm assuming we have a General Fund. If not, we'll have to create one.)

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-06 Thread bscott
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, at 9:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With these changes by Red Hat, we're re-evaluating our plans here at Net Technologies. I'm seriously considering Debian, but the lack of support from our vendors (e.g., Dell) means other problems. Vendors schmendors. Nice to say.

Re: Red Hat

2003-10-06 Thread bscott
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, at 10:43am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian... ... near-zero support from major third-party vendors ... ... whenever support and Debian occur in the same sentence, Libranet should come to mind ... Clarification: I'm not referring to getting support in administering

Re: Hosstraders report

2003-10-06 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'd like to take a moment to thank Ben, Maddog, Mike, and all the others who put their very valuable time into these activities. It does wonders for the group, but most importantly, it gets the word out and establishes a good and friendly foundation among the more knowledgeable users. We get this