We originally ran Mandrake. But this was a few years ago. It was very close to RedHat. As I remember, Mandrake used to install the 686 version of Linux by default. I don't remember why we went with Red Hat, but I don't think it was because of any bad experiences of Mandrake. Even back then, Mandrake had FrontPage extensions.
It certainly bring us the thoughts about going back to Mandrake. I suppose we couldn't be so lucky as to just do an upgrade from RedHat to Mandrake. I'm not sure if they are that close or not.. Joel > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Floyd Morrissette > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Apache Frontpage support list > Subject: Re: [Apache-FP] RedHat EOL.... > > > Has anybody experimented with Mandrake? I hear it is based > on RedHat. Would > Mandrake be a good alternative to RedHat? > > Floyd > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Apache Frontpage support list'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:04 PM > Subject: RE: [Apache-FP] RedHat EOL.... > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
