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

[Cameron, Thomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Matthews [mailto:k5wls at verizon.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:30 AM
> To: NTLug Discuss
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 9.0 End of Life 04/30/2004
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> TIA,
> Rick
> 
> 
> References:
> Red Hat Linux Migration Resource Center
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/rhl/rhn/
> 
> FAQs for Red Hat Linux Migration
> https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/
> 
> The Fedora Project
> http://fedora.redhat.com/



I will be using Fedora for my personal boxes.  Remember, Red Hat will be providing *significant* assistance to the Fedora project.  The perception that RH is bailing on hobbyists and small business users is just not true from what I have read.  It's just that they are focusing on commercial users.

I for one believe that the F/OSS community will benefit from the move to a community-supported distro based on RHL.  New software and new versions of existing software will be available sooner, and security updates will still be available quickly.

I am seriously bummed about all the flak RH is taking.  The loudest gripes I hear are pretty much false if you actually read the info at the Fedora home page and the excellent article by Joe Barr at http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/01/1417208&mode=thread&tid=51.

Me personally, I think this is a good move.

--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
(972) 997-9641

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