On 16-Nov-03 Timothy Hart wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>An annual fee of $379 per machine to run Linux ??? > > That is for Enterprise Red Hat. Just use Fedora. It is basically > Red Hat 10. Gentoo is nice too though.
Yes. Gentoo is nice, free (*both* as in free beer *and* in free speech) and highly customisable. In my case, combined with LTSP and low-cost hardware, it is the perfect environment for teaching ICT students how an OS works, how TCP/IP networking with and without thin clients can be setup, how to craft *cool* commandline utilities, how to produce high-end graphical QT/C++ applications and some goodies like OpenOffice, Gimp, Opera, Webmin, IRC, HTML, PHP, Apache, MySQL, XML, FTP, CVS, SSH, Samba, Cups, userfriendlyness, selfstudy, selfsupport, etc. Especially because each student and the teachers himself can have for free all the necessary tools at home too. Try doing *all* of that legally with M$ packages and the implied hardware! You'd have to be a millionaire ;) But, surely anyone else's mileage will vary. Which in the end renders this kind of threads useless. Except for the fact that we learn from each other what to choose and apply in which situations. CU, Wouter -------------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 16-Nov-03 13:52:44 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) In a world without fences who needs Gates ? -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
