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

[Alfred Dayton]

Just what concrete and substantive "*significant* assistance" do you really
believe RedHat will provide

AND continue to provide consistently and on a long term basis?  Time in its
mad flight has a way

Of diluting the professed "good intentions".  Once RedHat is on the Greedy
Orient Express to substantial

Corporate profits from their "filtched" commercial product, they will have
little desire to provide

Anything on a substantial basis.  RedHat is famous for their less than
stellar "support" and renown for their

Deliberate throttling of (server)er bandwith in order to FORCE the community
to purchase their CD or

Retail box production.  Needless to say one can not expect much service in
the future.

Alfred

Just my opinion from my personal research and experience with RedHat, your
mileage may vary.


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Cameron, Thomas
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:47 PM
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Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 9.0 End of Life 04/30/2004

> -----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

The opinions expressed in this message are mine alone and do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of my employer, Bank of America.

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