RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?

[Jay Daniels]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:58:22PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 11:59, Harper, Patrick wrote:
> > >From what I know Fedora is the replacement for the free RedHat products.
> > They also have a professional version only available at stores in
> > shrink-wrap for about $40.00
> > 
> > Fedora has been nothing but stable for me.  I am using it for some of my
> > IDS installs when they do not want to pay for rhel.
> > 
> > http://www.internetsecurityguru.com/documents/
> > 
> > I may be full it of though :) and have no idea what I am talking about
> 
> I've had the same experience. Fedora has been very stable and of
> professional quality, for the most part. Especially when you put it
> side-by-side with something like Mandrake. That's my major quandry now.
> If (as someone pointed out in a previous post) it's true that there
> still is a reasonably priced and supported NON-ENTERPRISE OS you can buy
> from Red Hat, I might go for that. But then again, I've been spoiled by
> Gnome 2.4. Not sure I'd want to go back to Gnome 2.2, older versions of
> Evolution, etc. That's the tease of Fedora. It's very good and it
> includes the latest stable stuff.
> 
> Preston

Same problem with Debian.  If all this effort was put into keeping
Debian up-to-date, there probably would be no RedHat.

I believe Sarge is nearing it's end of testing.


jay