No, ( or is that yes) I agree with you that they have split off the business. Fedora will be completely open source. It will still be free to download. They will have new releases every 3-4 months with support going back 6 months from the latest release. That sounds like fix's for maybe 9 months. So expect to upgrade a few times a year. Their first release is still in beta, and I think I read they will have an official release in November.
We have always stayed away from the .0 release of most any product, and this will be about the most .0 release you can get. We run a few production hosting servers and have been on 7.2 and 7.3 for a long time. We didn't see any reason to upgrade as they are very stable (Knock on wood).. If the next release was the normal red Hat release, we would probably upgrade to 10.0, as they do have the right to drop support of older releases. But Fedora has no track record and it makes me very nervous to base my business on this sort of release. As I read through the Beta test reports, most of the complaints are desktop application not working. To me, this could mean a few things. It could be the underlying operating system is stable and so that's all that's wrong. OR the testers are more worried about why x-windows don't work with a certain video board or they can't rip their MP3's with some applications, and don't care if the operating system hick-ups' once and a while. Anyway, we will probably load the official release of Fedora on our test machines when it comes out. My original post was just an inquirer if the FrontPage DSO or ?? Was compatible with Fedora. Don't let me sway anyone, Fedora could be the best thing that ever happened to open source. Joel > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Shirley > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 3:48 PM > To: Apache Frontpage support list > Subject: Re: [Apache-FP] RedHat EOL.... > > > I don't quite see it that way. If I am understanding it > properly, it > sounds like http://fedora.redhat.com will become what we would have > called redhat 10 if Redhat had continued to do business like > they were > before. > > All I see there is that Redhat is splitting their business into two > parts. One will continue development of the opensource side > and the > other will concentrate on the > "are-you-sitting-down-because-we-are-now-going-to-tell-you-ho > w-much-it- > costs" side. > > Those of us that know our way around the command prompt > should still be > able to get the same stuff from fedora that we used to get > from redhat > although it will be organized a little differently and will > accept more > input from people outside redhat than their redhat 7,8,9 > etc. structure > allowed. > > Or did I misread that? > > > On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 12:39 PM, John Canfield wrote: > > > > > This strategy really doesn't surprise me. RH's business model was > > bound to > > change; indeed a business that doesn't keep moving is going to be > > extinct in > > short order. I'm just sorry that the party seems to be > over -- it's > > 11 PM > > and the DJ just left :-( > > > > David Shirley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.webquarry.com > > _______________________________________________ > Apache-FP mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.joshie.com/mailman/listinfo/apache-fp > > Donations: > http://www.amazon.com/paypage/PT5LZITM9L227 > _______________________________________________ Apache-FP mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.joshie.com/mailman/listinfo/apache-fp Donations: http://www.amazon.com/paypage/PT5LZITM9L227
