Re: Red Hat Linux 9 - the end is very near - 6 months

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:08, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> > Not true.  The name changes, true, but the Red Hat Linux we know and
> > love will become "Fedora".
>
>
> What happens to RHN, security announcements, etc?  Is Fedora as stable
> as the previous Red Hat releases?  Would *YOU* use Fedora on a server? 
> How about a Mid to Enterprise server?  Redhat 8.0 has worked flawlessly
> for us as a mid-range server OS ...  I don't want to lose that, but I
> need to keep up with security ..  I do on my desktop too...  (I'm one of
> those few people who *didn't* get infected with blaster, sobig, etc when
> they came out..  That is, on my Windows machine..  work requires one...)

I will be using Fedora.  I will, as due dilligence requires, be
evaluating all four Red Hat variants (WS, ES, AS, and Fedora), as well
as the latest offerings from Caldera, SuSE and Debian.  Fedora will be
the more "bleeding edge" stuff which, after scrutiny, will become the
new WS/ES/AS offerings (heck, AS2.1 is based on RH 7.1!).

> > The purchased, box-set Red Hat Linux becomes "Red Hat Enterprise
>
> Linux"
>
> > in three flavors:  "WS" (workstation, what we now use mostly), "ES"
>
> (the
>
> > stuff we use now on steroids), and "AS" (advanced server).
>
>
> Any what are the restrictions here...  *Can* I install, legally, this
> product on more than one server if I buy only one?  If I can't, then
> what has RedHat done to prevent this?  Is it simply because RedHat has
> compiled this for installation?  Or is it because of the support? 
> *sigh*

I haven't seen the license agreements yet as my copies of WS/ES/AS
haven't arrived.  I expect them "any day now" (depending on how quick
I can poke the cattle prod into my purchasing department's ribs).

Can you say, "Kzzzzzzzzchhhht!"?

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