[OT] Linux leaders offer education discount

[Robert P. J. Day]

On 16 Nov 2003, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 03:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> >   if that's the case, how many students are going to be interested
> > in the more stable but certainly older technology of RHEL on their
> > desktop?  to which release of RH does RHEL currently correspond?
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Probably quite a few grad students, post-docs, and professors will be
> interested.  Theres a lot of researchers using Linux for data reduction
> who really don't care about bleeding-edge stuff.  They just want a
> stable, secure, and up-2-date platform for their desktops, servers, and
> beowulf clusters.
> 
> For instance, we have dozens of users matching that description in our
> department.

ok, points well taken, i withdraw my reservations about the academic
desktop product.  i guess there really *are* people who don't get their
kicks by trying to figure out why their USB mouse doesn't work any
more.  hard to believe.  :-P

rday