Would you recommend that others (who're interested in certification) look to RedHat, or wait and see what develops with Novell/SUSE ?
Not that anyone should care what I think, but the longer I'm in this game, the more I respect the ability and accomplishments of the Debian Project. Most proprietary Linux distros have done something in last 4 or 5 years to unsettle their previously loyal users. Some have turned against the Linux community like Caldera, a few have vanished, and most have flipflopped on their business models. SUSE is strong but it has also contained important proprietary pieces like YAST. I can't imagine that trend will change now that they are owned by Novell.
I get the feeling that the more of us there are using and supporting the Debian effort the safer we'll all be. I'm writing this on a mandrake box, but mandrake is a bleeding edge distro, mainly suited to the desktop, and it has come close to going OOB, and it may do so again.
~h.
Stevn Bartley wrote:
WOW. I could not put it better than the subject above.
I have been a RedHat linux supporter for about 5 years now. Until this morning!!!!
With the announcement by RedHat to discontinue their retail product past the 9.0 version, I have been patiently waiting to see what shakes out of the mess. I finally decided to contact them this morning to determine what course of action I needed to follow with regards to my RHN subscriptions. We had purchased 5 Enterprise Management accounts in April 2003 and then purchased another 2 Enterprise Management accounts on Sep. 29th. Since RedHat announced they are going to cease support of the RHN for RH9 after 4/30/04, I needed to find out what RedHat plans for those of us who have purchased a RHN subscription that will last beyond their 4/30 deadline.
Before I go into detail, I must explain that for the first time ever in my working with Linux, I ended up getting off the phone feeling like I used to feel when I would call MS for support. :( (snip)
The explanation for all of this by the customer support rep. is that RH
has the right under the license to stop providing RHN support at any
point it feels is justified since the EOL date for RH9 has been posted
for a year. It has simply been a kindness that RH has continued to
provide updates, bug fixes etc.. for previous products well beyond their
EOL dates. They simply have made a business decision to not follow that
course of action with regards to the RH9 EOL date and instead have
decided to put an EOL on the RHN support for that product also. While I
understand they have a legal right to do this, it does not seem ethical
or in line with the Linux community, or with their own historical
methodology.
All of this rings eerily like the company up North who plays strong arm
tactics with licensing repeatedly. It seems to me that RH has decided
that it is big enough now, that it no longer needs to cater to the needs
of the small user or organization.
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