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

[Chris A Czerwinski <chrisczerwinski cogeco ca>]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:38, mylar wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:27:11 -0800, Jim Hayward <jimhayward earthlink net> 
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 13:57, M.Schild wrote:
> >> >
> >> what about simple  homeusers? will we have to get mandrake? or Lindows?
> >> Maryse
> >
> > Fedora is the "replacement" for RHL (Red Hat Linux).
> >
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/
> >
> > Regards,
> > 	Jim H
> >
> I would say it's hardly a replacement in the sense of support. 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". 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.
> 
> Mylar

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