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

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 16:38 04 Nov 2003, mylar <micros50 computer net> wrote:
| On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:27:11 -0800, Jim Hayward <jimhayward earthlink net> 
| wrote:
| >Fedora is the "replacement" for RHL (Red Hat Linux).
| >http://fedora.redhat.com/
| >
| I would say it's hardly a replacement in the sense of support.

Support should be free?

| It's not 
| even being offered as a boxed set it's pretty much a download and you're 
| on your own sort of hack which is quite a major splitsville scene on the 
| "redhat Linux User community".

Well the RedHat WS is a "box set". A bit pricey though.
I'm somewhat of the opinion that most people don't buy boxed sets,
instead downloading or getting some CDROMs burnt by a friend.

| And while the whole Fedora kick may not be 
| much of a problem for big time cats like us it can be a major problem for 
| some of the lesser cats who are used to things like a "reasonable price", 
| prepackaged boxed sets, slow dialup connections, security updates, 
| bugfixes, support, etc.  I think it's a major bummer that redhat decided 
| to abandon the redhat linux scene so abruptly and aim there market soley 
| at the squares.

It's a shame, but Fedora's looking pretty good. We're certainly going
to give it a good try at my workplace. Besides, Fedora will probably be
a bit more "current" or "leading edge" than the RedHat releases were,
which is a long standing minor gripe of mine.

Cheers,
-- 
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