[wellylug] Redhat Stopping Redhat linux!?

Martin Wehipeihana martin at actionit.co.nz
Tue Nov 4 09:56:33 NZDT 2003


This is exactly why I choose open source! Why change distros? You have 
access to the source code. If you want to make any changes/enhancements 
you can make them yourself or pay someone else to do it.

You are not "stranded" as you would be under M$.

Martin


Rob Giltrap wrote:

> What RedHat are doing is providing "RedHat Enterprise Linux" as a well 
> supported comercial offering and "Fedora Linux" which is a cutting edge 
> community involved "free & unsupported" distro for the enthusiast and 
> developer. RedHat no longer really have a product tailored to the 
> average home consumer as it costs too much to support with little 
> revenue generation (at this stage).
> 
> This certainly gives an opportunity to Mandrake who seem to be a little 
> more successful in the home consumer space but also doubles down 
> RedHat's efforts to deliver on the enterprise systems. They have also 
> stated that when the market is right they are likely to produce a new 
> product.
> 
> Rob.
> 
> Jethro Carr wrote:
> 
>> check this article out!
>> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/03/1657205
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>> Time to get a new distro...
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>> --- Jethro
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>> dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
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>> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc
>> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/cv/index.html
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