Hello fellow Red Hatters,While all this is true, just change distributions. Yes this isn't the long term answer we need, but if you use a non-commercial based distribution then you won't have these problems. As to what I would reccomend, i'm not sure. I've heard SuSe is good, so maybe true it. Personally I left redhat for debian, but got upset becuase I coudln't find the information I needed, so I left for gentoo (which I think is easier to use). Personally I'm happy in the gentoo camp, but its not for everyone. I guess my point is the beauty of linux is that there are mutliple distributions, so yes it sucks having to learn a new one, but its really not that bad. Would you prefer to have been using apples and then have to switch to a windows? At least between linux distrubtions all the programs you have will still work (I've bought a couple games and what not).
On this sad day Red has finally announced by email -
About the upcoming discontinuation of Red Hat Linux.
Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux as of April 30, 2004 and does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line.
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Bowing my head low, as it cannot hold it's head high and profess that the Red Hat will continue Linux support, seems that ENTERPRISE has won (again) and we will pay the price as all marketers would like us to do. Programming code and shared should drive prices down and not up, so where and what's wrong with that logic? Where did the reasoning fail?
Chris
Its sad, but I promise you, its not the end of the world, William