[Tfug] /.: Red Hat Linux is ending

[Jeremy Rogers]

Ahh... Thank you.  I suspected something along those lines, but not being a redhatter, I didn't have the motivation to look into it.  But it just makes sense that Redhat -> Fedora shouldn't be the end of the world for all "hat" people.


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Subject:	Re: [Tfug] /.: Red Hat Linux is ending
Dang! People are really overreacting to this. That Orbital Sander guy who
posted this to /. was way too negative, err abrasive.

After looking past the FUD and whining, I think this is a good thing.

What this means to me:
Old name: Red Hat
New Name: Fedora Core - OMG!
Old way for errata and security updates: up2date
New way for errata and security updates: up2date, apt, yum
Old lifecycle:12-24 months
New Lifecycle: 6 months (read-new packages sooner)

Uh, what this guy said....
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84550&cid=7387059

Johnny


Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
> ISTR from the recent thread on what distros folks are running
> that almost nobody here is running RH, but this is interesting
> nonetheless ...
>
> Angus
>
> --------- Included Stuff Follows ----------------
> 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].
> --------- Included Stuff Ends ----------------
>
> [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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