Re: Novell acquires SuSE And Red Hat drops RH Linux

[Stephen Williams <steve icarus com>]

Hoover, Tony wrote:
> Yes, RedHat is going with the Fedora product line for desktop systems.
> Fedora will be produced by RedHat, but not supported (phone support) by
> RedHat.
>
> I believe that this makes a lot of business sense.  They won't have to tie
> up tech support for desktop calls that most of the time can be resolved by
> pointing the user to the appropriate "How-To", so they can spend their
> effort on the end of the business that actually makes money, and keeps them
> in business.  

Also, there are bunches of RedHat knock-off, including Mandrake,
that should gladly take up the slack there. There is really a lot
of variety and choice out there.

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