[wellylug] Redhat Stopping Redhat linux!?

[Enkidu]

That may be OK, for a single user at home, but it won't work in the
Corporate environment. I have a strict rule on my systems - no
tarballs. The only problems that we have had is when someone disobeys
this rule and clobbers another package. "Oh, but it said that I also
needed Y!" where Y is a rpmed package which was at a different level.

Try supporting several systems with several patches and see how many
weekends you have to work! 

Cheers,

Cliff

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:56:33 +1300, you wrote:

>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
>>>
>>> Time to get a new distro...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Jethro
>>>
>>> dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
>>>
>>> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc
>>> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/cv/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> 

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