[UNCLASSIFIED]RE: [clug] Red Hat linux purchase

[Duncan Bolt]

The package in question is
http://download.earthdecision.com/

He has just been given a huge budget to buy a computer to run it. He 
struggled to spend that much money, but he managed and did buy some sort 
of Quad Xeon for it.

He wants Red Hat because they have told him he needs Red Hat. I agree 
that we could probably get it to run with SuSE or similar.

At any rate if buying RedHat will give him  a nice fuzzy safe feeling, 
then he should buy it. I agree it is more for the support from the 
vendor of his package than any technical reason. I just hope they 
recommend he installs all the security updates and tell him what to do 
when the RedHat support runs out.

Thanks, 30 seconds after sending this email I found a link to the 
Academic Ordering site on RedHat, I have pointed him at it, and we will 
see what happens.

Duncan


Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>
> Unless it does something really unusual, I'd be surprised if
> it actually required RHEL. We use ordinary SuSE to test stuff
> that goes onto SLES and rarely notice any significant differences.
> Perhaps Red Hat is a bit different in this regard; I don't know.
> ANU might have a site licence/bulk/academic licence anyway.
>
> Less sure about the 64 bit issue, we've side stepped that for a
> while until I get some 64 bit hardware for testing. ;-p
>
> May one ask what the scientific package is?
>
> Antti
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-bounces+antti.roppola=brs.gov.au at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-bounces+antti.roppola=brs.gov.au at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Bolt
> Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 11:24 AM
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [clug] Red Hat linux purchase
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the Academics here needs to run a scientific package and it lists its requirements as Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 (64-bits). I am currently setting up his new Xeon machine for it.
>
> As far as I remember, this is not a free copy anymore, so he has to buy it. Is this true ?
>
> If so where can we purchase a copy of this ?
>
> Thanks
> Duncan
>
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