Re: A small question about Red Hat

From: teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: "Kapil Tilwani" <karan_pg_2(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A small question about Red Hat
Date: 2001-07-01 14:19:03
Message-ID: xuysnggg2aw.fsf@halden.devel.redhat.com
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(not relevant to postgresql, so I suggest you ask this on
e.g. redhat-list: http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ )

"Kapil Tilwani" <karan_pg_2(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:

> Red Hat is Open Source and is freely downloadable, right? But, if I
> have acquired a CD from some source, other than Red Hat, can I install
> on unlimited Computers?

Yes.

> Secondly, what if he had purchased the CD, would a copy of it be
> illegal?

No.

> Also, is it easy to learn FreeBSD for someone like me who knows just
> VB and not even NT completely. Is FreeBSD graphical also?

It has the same underlying programs as Linux has for graphical display
(X, Gnome/KDE) - you might have a harder time getting accelerated 3D
graphics, other than that, the programs are similar.

--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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