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

[Iostream@comcast.net]

Red Hat's expectations are as you stated, to drive business to the RHEL product, and to use Fedora as a proving grounds for newer technologies before they move into the RHEL product.  The Fedora Legacy project is not being sponsored by Red Hat, but is a seperate list, and certainly smiled upon by Red Hat.  While Fedora may be errata supported for fairly large amounts of time, it still does not offer the stable product that businesses expect in that it will actually get new functionality, new package versions pushed as errata.  There will be less backporting of a fix if the new version of the app to be fixed addresses the issue and does not make any major changes to the infrastructure or binary compatibility.  For the average user, this is not only acceptable, but welcomed.  For the business user, this is not acceptable in many cases.  I do believe that the Fedora project will be of benefit to the community, and to Red Hat.  For the community, it gets people more in tune with what Red Hat is working on, it gets more people involved in testing, and gives people a stable and up to date distribution free of charge.  For Red Hat it gives a larger test base for product development, and more developer community eyes to make a stronger RHEL product.

Also of note, for the home user who doesnt want to deal with a more bleeding edge distribution like Fedora, Red Hat is shipping "Red Hat Professional Workstation".  This is essentially a release of RHEL for home users.  It shares the RHEL code base and stability, and costs considerably less.  I believe it retails for less than $100.
> Iostream at comcast.net wrote:
> > Fedora Core should have updates for quite some time,
>  > I would expect 6 months between Core releases, and another
>  > 6 months of errata updates before it is dropped from Fedora
>  > proper, but the Fedora Legacy project may very well extend
>  > support for a long time beyond that.  I would expect many though
>  > to simply update to the next core release when it is available.
> 
> > I do not expect the Fedora project to stray too far
>  > from Red Hat's expectations, as it is being closely governed
> >  by Red Hat themselves.  Outside of Core however might be a different issue.
> > For availability, I Fedora Core 1 should have isos available this week.
> 
> This is somewhat contrary to what RH has said up to this point.
> My understanding is that the prime reason for Fedora is to
> develop technologies that can be leveraged in RHEL.
> 
> And that the support path on Fedora is intentionally short in
> order to drive the business market to RHEL.  Obviously 6 months
> still qualifies as very short.. but we were initially told
> something long the lines of 3-4 months.  Of course this
> whole deal is sorta half-baked (from a business plan perspective).
> So implementation could be radically different from the initial
> expectations/press.
> 
> Do you have some inside info on RH's expectations for this?
> 
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