On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 18:08, Gerry Doris wrote:
Redhat announced that they are discontinuing the consumer version (used to be called Redhat Linux). They are planning to provide support and assistance to the Fedora project but it will not be a branded by Redhat.
Not exactly... they won't produce full, boxed-sets anymore, but they will continue to provide community with development efforts and new ways to contribute.
Which means exactly what? Redhat Linux is gone and Redhat has cooked up a scheme to make it look like they're not really leaving. There's a lot of verbage and speculation but no one knows exactly what a community supported distro is. From what I've seen of the RH posts it comes down to if Fedora isn't any good then it will be the fault of the community not RH.
They've stated that the Fedora version will be for hobbists and enthusiasts. It will have a very short life cycle and will contain bleeding edge package releases. If you want a "business" release then you have to pay for their enterprise versions.
I think they haven't said exactly thay. I think they stated that if you want a stable product, with longer release cycles, you'd better go on with RHEL. Fedora Linux is the equivalent of Red Hat Linux, which has always been targeted at small customers with lower support needs.
If you go check the archives (a post to me from a RH employee...forget which one) he said exactly what I mentioned. Namely, this will be a bleeding edge release with the very lastest packages. It is for enthusiasts and hobbists. The Fedora package will NOT be the equivalent of Redhat Linux. It will not have the RH quality control and testing. That's one of the reasons it will not be branded by Redhat. Fedora will have short release cycles and with support for the most current versions only.
This has resulted in a huge debate on the RH mailing lists. Many are stating that they're going to be moving to SuSE or at least seriously considering SuSE.
Once more, I listen to those mailings lists and can't remember anybody going to make the switch. But don't get me wrong, I use both SuSE and RHL and I like both. SuSE is more desktop-friendly, has better admin tools, but RHL has always had the greatest support (KDE 3.1.4 was available instantly for RHL, Oracle is certified for RHL) and seems geared towards the datacenter and servers.
Hmmm, I guess you're missing some of the posts. Some (not everyone of course) have been debating the merits of moving to various packages including SuSE. The problem for several folks is that they can't/won't pay for RHEL for their university/school/church servers. They need a server solution without the RHEL price tag. I've seen hints that RH are working on a solution for this but nothing has been announced yet that I'm aware of. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer