On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:13:10AM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > I am not sure my students can afford a $99 product for only a single > semester. and: > Fedora does not seem to meet these needs due to its short life cycle and > somewhat bleeding edge direction. Student learning as much as they are > required to learn need a stable platform. Certainly things are not yet clear, but I expect that Fedora is *exactly* the right thing for your course. (In fact, I can't think of anything else that would match Fedora better than does your course.) It looks like Redhat will be using Fedora as their development ground, and so they should be motivated to make sure releases are stable so they don't have to redo all that work when adapting it for their commercial releases. If you avoid test releases, you should have something as bleeding edge as possible while also being stable. Isn't that what a graduate level course should be about? Hell, aren't graduate students supposed to be creating knowledge and not just consuming it? Maybe they should be contributing to Fedora and not just looking for free errata... I can see the downside that your reference server at home will have to be built from scratch more often, but isn't that a reasonble price for teaching an up to date course? (Are your students building their machines from scratch each semester? Rebuilding yours from scratch every semester--or two--should be a lot easier for you than it is for them.) -kb, the Kent who hopes he isn't being too harsh. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
