i'm taking a linux fundamentals class we are doing literally

Feels good to learn python at school on Debian with only open sources softwares.

>>62102952
Yeah, our instructor said we were using redhat before, but the license expired and they stopped giving them out to schools for free

now we're using centOS

>>62103069
A bit unrelated, but I always found this attitude a bit strange:
"The license expired"
As if the license had a mind of it's own and just decided to expire out of blue. When in reality from even before somebody bought that license the terms were absolutely clear: valid for X years.
So what irks me is that people buy licenses without a) knowing if they will renew the license in the future, and b) having any idea if they will be able to pay the fees in the future. Why are they so shortsighted?

>>62103277
Your a and b points don't follow from that statement. What makes you think they didn't know that they would have to buy again but decided not to?

>>62102952
DAM! Where u go?? Euro?

>>62102880
Well... A lot of the time you are going to use a windows PC for work and remote to a Linux server so doing it in a VM makes sense from a professional point of view. Same with the Dell... The instructor probably wants more practical use cases for you to learn other than exotic shit.

If you want to learn Linux on a riced arch install with i3wm-gaps on some weird hardware you can do it in your own time.

>>62103069
CentOS is basically the same as redhat.

>>62105525
All Linux distros are basically the same, they just start off with different programs and settings.