Oh, Mohan's was a gmail address... I blindly hit send and then noticed that the email would go to him only, instead of the whole list!

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mrugesh Karnik mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com Date: Oct 5, 2005 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] stable version of Linux To: Mohan Nayaka mohansn@gmail.com

On 9/30/05, Mohan Nayaka mohansn@gmail.com wrote:

hi Your signature says

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Mrugesh Karnik Registered Linux User #375243

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What does ' Registered Linux User ' mean? AFAIK you do not have to register Linux like Microshit Windows. Regards, Mohan S N

Actually, that registration statement is not entirely true. Windows is **** with all those serial numbers and stuff. That certainly doesn't apply in Linux. But when it comes to Enterprise Linux, you have to register with Red Hat or SuSE to get updates. Mind you, afaiu, it doesn't matter where you got your copy of RHEL or SLES from. It is quite legal to download both of them from, say, bittorrent or something, because both are still GPL'd. Only, if you don't buy your copy from Red Hat or SuSE, you won't get any updates. Though like I said before, even if you didn't buy it, you can still register and get the updates. Updates are not free.

Now, as for my signature, that is the result of registering at http://counter.li.org. I actually use this signature outside such Linux related mailing lists. I use this signature for all my other emails, just to let people know that I'm using Linux! I do my bit to help the community and Linux, any way that I can. :) -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mrugesh Karnik | Registered Linux User #375243 |-----------------------------------------------------------------------