[wplug] RedHat and Fedora?

[Shawn Henderson]

Any one know how this will effect the k12 project ???
Will it be brought over to fedora also or will redhat maintain it?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ostroske" <eksortso at linuxmail.org>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug] RedHat and Fedora?


> Russ Schneider <russ at sugapablo.com> said:
> > So what's everyone's take on RedHat discontinuing all free Linux
> > versions in favor of for-pay Enterprise versions and suggesting people
> > use Fedora if they want something for free?
>
> Call me a heretic, but I wish them well. They're a business, and taking
whatever avenues they must take to be profitable is in their best interest.
It may not be in *our* best interest, but that's our problem, not theirs.
>
> Fedora sort of feels like a cross between Debian and Mozilla in its stated
development path. The distro will be community-supported (a la Debian), and
it will be sponsored by, but not supported by, a major player in the
industry (a la Mozilla). The only big difference from what we have now is
that instead of just Red Hat rolling the packages, it will be Fedora
volunteers, including many Red Hat folks. And if something works out well in
Fedora, it could be worked into RHEL for Red Hat's paying customers.
>
> Small businesses might be hurt, if they're reliant on the "Red Hat Linux"
line and Red Hat Network. But I suspect that these companies have
Linux-savvy people who wouldn't need support from Red Hat anyway. If they
don't know something, then they can get help from online forums and local
LUGs. (That would be us!)
>
> As for security updates, I've been using the RPM version of APT for the
past few months, and I love it. Even if Red Hat stops supporting RH9, there
will still be people updating repositories with security packages and other
tools. And "apt-get dist-upgrade" will still work for something. You might
expect to see a few "forks" off of what was once Red Hat Linux. We already
have uber-distros like KRUD, and Mandrake earned its identity by forking off
of Red Hat.
> http://www.tummy.com/krud
>
> So there's a future for users of RH9. It won't be a single future. But
that might work out best for people, anyway.
>
> --- Random-firing neurons from the head of David Ostroske
>     eksortso at linuxmail.org
>
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