On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 13:57, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Red Hat no longer exists, and I haven't heard much of Fedora lately.
Not quite, Volker :)
Red Hat still sells, in large numbers, a commercial variant of Linux
called Red Hat Enterprise Linux
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/21/redhat_q2_boost/
RHEL has a slow release cycle, a subscription service, and a bunch of
other stuff that companies tend to like. The non-commercial variant of
Red Hat is called Fedora, as Volker said
http://fedora.redhat.com/
It has released Fedora Core 3 Test 3 and is bubbling along quite nicely.
Unlike the commercial variant of Red Hat, Fedora releases every six
months, which can be disruptive for critical applications but works
quite well for a desktop. The biggest problem with Fedora is the lack of
a movie player, but FreshRPMS
http://freshrpms.net/
solves that problem :)
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
