[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 9.0 End of Life 04/30/2004

[Chris Cox]

Rick Matthews wrote:
> If this has been discussed here previously, I apologize for missing
> it.
> 
> Now that "Red Hat Linux" is going away, I was wondering what other
> personal users of Red Hat were planning as a <free> migration path.
> Will it be the "Fedora Project"? Or something else?
> 

I don't use Redhat personally, but I do mess with it quite a bit.
Fedora is the official path for Redhat's consumer line.... Fedora
is a community effort with heavy handcuffs to RH.

Like it was with RH, you could either pay for the expensive
boxed RH (which at least had printed docs.. if that's worth something)
or you went and purchased the Splarf-Linux 9 dist... which was
really RH, but they weren't allowed to tell you that.  You don't
get printed docs and a nice looking box.... as for support, I
think you are better off talking to your cat than going to
RH for support.

If you're a big RH fan... I'd give Fedora a try.  See if a
community support dist works out well for you.  I think
you'd be much happier with Debian though... but hey...
I could be wrong.