[OT] Linux leaders offer education discount

Peter Boy pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Sun Nov 16 10:23:54 UTC 2003


Am So, den 16.11.2003 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 10:14:
> but you and i all know how students think -- bleeding edge,
> the latest and greatest, etc.

That's right, indeed. But there are a lot who don't care about the
technical side but just want to work with a browser, an office suite and
a mailer in a stable environment. 

> i'd never *heard* of the "academic desktop" product, and my 
> immediate reaction was, "ok, what's under the hood?"

I remember there was an announcement some years ago, but at least in
Europe there was never a concrete offering.

>From my point of view the server side of the announcement is the
important one. The enhancend RHEL ES server is quite interesting.


Peter







More information about the users mailing list