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
