Installing fedora at school

[James Mckenzie]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
Sent: Jan 28, 2005 8:44 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Installing fedora at school

Danial Rehman wrote:
> My school is thinking of installing linux on some of the computers,
> and were wondering if it's legal to use linux for non-private usage. I
> really didn't get what they meant but something about linux only
> beeing free if your going to install for yourself and not for a whole
> school or corporation or whatever.
> 
> So I'm wondering if it's allowed to get fedora for about 10 compters
> at my school the legal way.
> I always thought linux was free for everyone?

|Linux itself is free for everyone. Some distributions may additionally 
|include proprietary software that is not free for everyone, but Fedora 
|is not one of those distributions. You can install it on as many 
|machines as you like.

One of the things that I would like to point out is that FC is a BETA or testing product.  I would not install it to a production or training environment. I would use a more stable distribution in such an environment, such as RHEL.




James McKenzie
A Proud User of Linux!