Hi, On Wed, Nov 05, 2003, Herouth Maoz wrote: > My guess is that small organizations that merely run their web server and CVS > repository on Red Hat will simply switch to a different distro. Large > organizations may go for this new Red Hat model, and Linux hobbyists will just > disappear.
C'mon, the last part of this statement is FUD. Hobbyists will still probably happily continue to do installs of RH, just now net installs through their Fedora project (or local mirrors), or will change to one of many other distributions (Debian and Gentoo most notably, IMHO). RH is smart enough to very much want hobbyists to continue to use their distro (and Linux in general) since it seeds the pool of qualified hackers/admins/etc. which is one of the hallmarks of the Free Software / OSS movement. For example, I built our Beowulf cluster (100 Athlons + 100Gb RAM) around Debian... Anyway, modulo continued FS/OSS focus, any steps that major Linux players do to increase their business success is beneficial to the Linux community, I believe. It enhances the respectability of the OS which enables larger corporations to more easily adopt it (or rather, enables weak-willed CIOs to more easily adopt something they should have already embraced a few years ago). Warm regards, Daniel PS Too bad I'll miss Haifux's LinuxDay by only four days when I next arrive in Israel... :( -- Daniel A. Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graduate Fellow Electronic Structure Calculations, LASSP, Cornell University Free University Project: http://www.freeuniversityproject.org Help build an accredited open-admission, free-tuition online university! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
