Brandon Mercer wrote:
> Ken Yap wrote:
heaps of alternatives to RH, and the GPLed source remains GPL, so it's
>> not a monopoly situation.
>>
Well, when all the major vendors of servers, Dell, HP, Compaq, and IBM, say that they only support redhat 7.3 and back, yes, it does start looking like a monopoly situation.
>> >>
> I do think this conversation is quite relevant to the future of LTSP as the choice platform for the whole birth of this project was redhat. Now all these admins are trying to figure out what to do!
> Brandon
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I agree completely, that's been my point exactly, whether fully understood or not in my recent posts. I've tracked and used this project since 1999 when I presented it to the UN in Geneva for consideration for their use in missions around the globe along with Wordperfect Office and Mandrake. (seemed to be the best choice at the time) It has been a redhat centric project, and even a year and a half ago when I asked in this forum, I was told that the best bet was to go with redhat as it was most compatible with this project, that debian was not that well supported. I am very tired of hearing from my vendors support that they will only support redhat 7.3, that is of course not the only version of Linux out there, yet none of them will not talk to you if you use another, period, end of call. I've never had a question or a grip about LTSP, it's worked flawlessly for me on numerous installs, both commercial and for non-profits that I've installed it on. I've really no reason to complain since I don't in fact contribute to this project except for spreading the word, until now. I've questioned redhat before in this forum only to be told by JAM himself that "Buddy, you need to chill out". But I think my questions are valid. Redhat has drawn a line in the sand, not us open source advocates. Why should any open source project, LTSP, K-12 Linux, or any others, continue to do work for the open source community only to have it put into an expensive, non-open source, commercial product while leaving the Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, and FreeBSD distro's as second rate citizens? I would think any open source advocate would get in line behind these disto's. And why, when someone in the forum questions redhat, are they made to feel as if they have done something wrong? Has redhat become some sacred cow no one dare offend?
I'm sure I'll be told to "chill out" but I think these points do need to be addressed, publicly, in the open, in the interests of the projects users. I trusted this forum for guidence only to be burned by redhat, what distro would be best?
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