[Tfug] /.: Red Hat Linux is ending

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

ISTR from the recent thread on what distros folks are running 
that almost nobody here is running RH, but this is interesting 
nonetheless ...

Angus

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Red Hat Linux Support To End [0] 
Posted by simoniker on 11:17 Monday 03 November 2003
from the no-more-hat-polishing dept.
  Orbital Sander writes "Received a missive this morning
  from the Red Hat Network, stating that they will
  discontinue maintenance [1] on Red Hat Linux 7.x and 8.0
  by the end of 2003, and on Red Hat 9.0 by the end of
  April, 2004. And, more ominously: 'Red Hat does not plan
  to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line.'
  [The full text [2] of the email is on Newsforge.] Kind of
  the end of an era, and the new king has already been
  appointed: Red Hat Linux is dead! Long live Red Hat
  Enterprise Linux! Looks like they realized that only
  their support contract-based version of the product was
  making them any money [3]." Readers also note that Red
  Hat is pointing users to the free Fedora Project [4]. 
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[0] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/03/1749259
[1] http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
[2] http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml
[3] http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=RHAT&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=450143
[4] http://fedora.redhat.com/


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