[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat on Fedora

[MadHat]

Just heckling, because this has gotten very old.

On Jan 22, 2004, at 9:07 AM, Chris Cox wrote:
> I think you all know I'm not RedHat's biggest fan.

Me either, but I use it.

> The last Red Hat I ran (at home) was on my old Hitachi
> notebook.. that was RH 5.0.

It has changed a great deal.

> Whatever we think about Fedora/RedHat, pro or con, the
> future success of RedHat is important because:
> RedHat does Linux!

Sounds like a kinky movie.

> I would feel no differently if SUSE were dying because
> Novell started "playing the corporate/investors-only game."
> (not that Red Hat is dying... just saying that it's
> important for Linux supporting companies to survive).

SuSE/Novell is a different story all together.

> The good news, we have choices.  We don't have to use
> Red Hat.... we don't have to use Fedora... we don't have
> to use SUSE... we don't have to use Mandrake... we don't
> have to use Gentoo... we don't have to use Debian....

Cause we have Slackware.  Yeah Slackware.

> We use them because, for now, we like the particular
> distribution.... things can change and obviously in
> the case of most of these, we've seen MUCH change.

They are just trying to keep up with Microsoft.

> I wish Red Hat and the Fedora folks all the best.
> I hope it works out well for them.  I'm sticking with
> SUSE for now.... it gives me less of a headache.

Be careful, you might make a valid point. ;)