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.
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.
In other words, if you wanted a branded stable solid release (used to be Redhat Linux) that was suitable for SOHO or equivalent at a low cost (even $0), well, Redhat no longer provides this.
Well, RHEL is not exactly cheap, but the RHEL WS is still affordable.
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.