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What the fuck :O
That's my CD-Key! Aaaaaa
This is burned into my brain like nothing else.
What's this a reference to?
Back in the day we all had a pirated copy of windows xp pro (corporate, if Iβm remembering correctly).
This was the cd key we all used.
I'm pretty sure that both Red Hat Enterprise and SUSE Enterprise require a license key.
Red hat does after 9?
RHEL never did to install it. To get any updates though, you have to provide a contract number.
Edit: 10 might be different, but I don't think it would be.
Thatβs right, you pay for support not the binaries and the source code is free under GPL.
Not certain, I haven't installed red hat in several years.
I started Linux with a physical copy of redhat 5.2 in 2000.
I had an old friend who busted his ass to educate me on computers when I was a kid and I will be forever thankful to him.
For me, my first exposure to Linux was around that same time, but with SuSE. It's still my go-to distro, even though I've installed and used dozens of different ones. Compiling Gentoo over a weekend is a fun experience at least once.
I think I used gentoo years ago. Is that the one that builds and downloads as you install? Iβm getting old, itβs been years and I remember a distro that was making headlines with something like that years ago.
My go-to distro for a long time was Mandrake, which became Mandriva. I have no idea whatβs going on with that one now.
Iβve been using SteamOS and EndeavourOS recently.
Yeah, Gentoo builds everything from source. Supposed to make it faster, but I didn't notice enough of a difference to make it worth my while.
You can always install activate-linux, and it even works on Windows.
That's a delight. I should add that to our Linux jumpbox templates just to spice things up with the junior engineers
I thought not, but just last week there was a discussion about someone asking about buying the "Pro" version of their distro, which have them access to... free open source software they could have just downloaded. Had a big (polite) argument with someone about the ethics of this
Distros (ZorinOS) are doing this crap. Shysters will always find a way to fleece people.
I personally donβt mind at all if open source projects want to sell a βproβ version for businesses, as long as itβs still open source. Selling priority troubleshooting and dev attention to issues to businesses seems like one of the less offensive ways to fund open source projects in a capitalist society, imo
I also don't mind if they are "selling" nothing, or just a supporter icon. As long as they are transparent that that is all you are getting.
That's pretty much it, right? ZorinOS Pro gives you some more desktop layouts, more wallpapers, and what they call "Zorin Installation Support service". Basically like buying a hat in a free game.
But the "Advanced productivity tools" one is a bit misleading, apparently it's stuff anyone can install from the store it just pre-installs some unnamed apps for you.
I don't mind selling some cosmetic stuff to fund development, the app thing is a bit shady though.
Agree. I wouldn't even mind it if they were more open about what they're actually doing, as picking a well working set of apps from the sea open-source apps can have value.
That said, if you read through that site it feels like they want to appear like it's them who created all that software.
Isn't this basically how Fedora and RHEL are? RHEL is paid for giving you support, updates, etc. While Fedora is FOSS. You just install it and they don't care what you do with it.
Yes! I completely agree. The distinction is, to me, utterly important: they aren't selling the software, they're selling the service. Hell, if they want to sell the option to get your bugs fixed on demand, great! That's enormously different than taking millions of developer hours spent creating OSS, sticking a label and name on it, and then reselling it as if you made any real contribution to the OSS community.
Or for server software it can be funded with support contracts.
I mean, that's kinda like RHEL if you pay for the "self-service" subscription?
Yes, and I have the same opinion about Redhat.
No issue with their actual paid service levels; it costs them to run those, and they're providing value. Most corporations won't use software unless they have a telephone number to call when it breaks, and service level guarantees. That's worth paying for; it's a service. But the fact that they're charging for software that includes some that I wrote, and which RHEL got for free, and for which I receive no kickbacks, is inexcusable.
But even Red Hat offers that subscription for free for up to 16 machines
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Unfortunately, whats scarier to people is if the installer is text or TUI, :0
Wait I'm the system administrator, who the hell do I contact??!!
User not in super-sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
The Ultra Sysadmin. Bring the sacrifice.
There's a typo there so I think it's fake.
There are also 26 X's in the boxes.
I agree. It's quite unlikely the setup will finish in 33 minutes. Not really, anyway.
Apparently, you've never run Xandros.
XP
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