[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat on Fedora

[Richard Geoffrion]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
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> I don't see how there is any significant down side to this.  The
> community gets a free, professionally built distro (Fedora),
> enterprise computing shops get a supported, commercial distro (RHEL)
> and the parent company is able to keep the lights on and pay people
> to improve Linux.  How about it folks, can we quit this insane
> internal squabbling and just cut Red Hat a break?

That makes me feel like there will be no real STABLE version of Fedora.
Products that use... say the D3 database from RAINING DATA can probably
expect to see the need for a RHEL for future releases.  Raining Data has to
approve their database software for a specific Distribution.  It just
recently went from RH 7.2? to 9.0..  That means the fast moving Fedora will
probably be out as a candidate for D3 use.   A particular document imaging
company I know will now either have to raise the price of their product to
add in an RHEL,  fight the programming issues of using a 'test' version of
Linux, -OR- go back to using Slackware (or whatever distro)


All in all I still think FedHat, while doing much to market the name of
Linux, is even MORE less of a viable option for me and my customers.


more less...can one say that?   increasingly less?  how bout  "lost more of
it's unviableness"

--
Richard - ever the pamless slacker.