Neil Harwani posted in linux-india-help: > Hi, > I had been using Red Hat 8.0 until recently. Now I have formatted my > hard-disk and I am reading reviews that Red Hat 9.0 will no longer > supported and so people should switch to Fedora or something else.
That is true. Redhat 9 has gone out of support on 30/4/2004. > My questions: > 1. Which linux distribution would be good for me ? I am an average > person fond of some programming, web-development and interested in > learning networking ? My use would be more or less like an advanced > desktop system. Before I install I would like to hear which distribution > I should install, red hat 8.0 or fedora or mandrake or suse and why ? Redhat 8.0 is even older. I'd suggest you move over to Fedora. > 2. The charges that Red Hat takes for it's linux distributions like it's > server operating systems and the new O/S coming out this year are all I > hope for support and documentation and such stuff, am I correct ? Does > the license under which linux was released make it compulsory for it to > be given as free ? I know it has to stay open source and available to > all but is there also a compulsion that it should always be given free, > my point is always ? There is nothing that prevents Redhat from charging for support. I'd expect the pricing of RHEL puts it beyond the reach of the average Indian hobbyist, though. What Redhat has essentially done is to stop development/releases along its Redhat Linux product line; they handed that line over to a community project named Fedora. They are now concentrating only on their Enterprise Linux line of products. Priced much higher than Redhat Linux, RHEL promises longer product life (5 years), better application support (Oracle, IBM, Veritas etc.) and a variety of support options from Redhat. Those are the buzzwords that make CTOs and IT Managers consider Linux favourably. RHEL is meant for them; not for the average home user. In any case, Redhat is giving away RHEL for free, in the sense that they have put up the SRPMs on their site for download. You will have to download them, build them, and produce a bootable ISO - not a simple task :) Binand -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uptime 11:55am up 58 days, 4:49, 2 users, load average: 1023.78, 419.92, 158.90 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
