As I was browsing the redhat.com site, looking to better my knowledge on the lastest version, 7.2, I noticed that its no longer available for free download. It seems the whole point as Linus told it, was to make a free operation system.. right from the voluntary programmers that wrote it. RedHat must be one of the ONLY distrubutions of linux that you HAVE to pay for.. hmmm, am I right?

well its funny two seconds after I posted that I found the VERY SECLUDED link to download it LOL


http://www.redhat.com/download/rhlinux72.html

maybe they getting ready for aol take over..then you prolly won't be able to download it at all

check the mirrors; they're usually faster anyway.

Free Linux is nice, however, I strongly believe that one should help support the companies like Mandrake and the like to continue to develop for Linux.

Free doesn't necessarily mean that you don't pay for it. As long as we will support these companies then the improvement of Linux will continue. If we volunteer to support them, as was and is done with shareware, freeware etc, we are ensuring that MS will not continue to monopolize the industry and shove things down our throats!!!

I agree completly. Thats why i purchased SuSE 7.3 even though it costed me a hefty $40

btw, if i ever win the lottery i am definatly donating half of it to the development of linux.

yeah right, everyone always says they will donate money if they win the lotto.. but they never do, and espically half of it, government takes the first half for taxes. well i am sure the majority don't, especially instant over night rich people. guess they feel they owe no one anything after maybe struggling or not having all the money in the world they would need.

hmm... actually... that wouldn't be such a bad idea... charities are tax shelters... in the US anyway... i guess i'd just give whatever i'd lose in taxes to the EFF or slashdot or something.

The government will take somewhere from 35%-40% of you lottery winnings, and so you are saying to make up for that you are going to give another 35%-40%, leaving you with 20%-30% of your original winnings?

OK, this is what I would do.

If I won a big jackpot over say, 10 million, then I would give soem to my dad, pay off bills, buy a nice house, and then put the remainder in a high interest bearing offshore account.

I would then just live off interest, and keep as much outside the US border I can. I have only one credit card, so that should not be to difficult.

And at the end of the year, I would figure what I owe in taxes, and then donate enough money that the deduction itself would offset what I owe and not pay anything at all in taxes becaase of the deduction. I feel charities deserve money, the US government does not.

The charity I would most like to give to though is the EFF. i would also liek to do a business, but then I got to deal with our government again.. AGH!

Actually i'm not that type of person. Besides what would ANYONE do with 17+ million? i know i wouldnt be able to spend it all...unless you like burning money.

a few nice cars and a couple of boats and you would be back looking for work again!

All,

This is the first time i post my msg...i enjoy very much reading your posts in the forum. I am a newbie to Linux, just had installed Red hat 7.2, still in the process of learning, of course by myself. Too much questions to ask, but i don't know from where to start.

i have learnt about that our passwords are kept in the shadowed file, hey, Shadow Hacker, are u able to crack the passwd file? anyway, i am just asking cos i find nick interesting.

cheers

i don't know about the rest of you, but i could spend 17 million bucks pretty quickly. i got a long wish list. ;-)