> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 15:58, Matthew John Darnell wrote: > > > > I have a machine here that won't start the 9.0 graphical setup. 8.0 works > > fine as does Windoze 2000, trying Mandrake 9.1. I guess RH 9.1 will fix > > some video issues. > > Please provide more details about your video hardware and motherboard.
The 9.0 install recognizes the video card as a "S3 ProSavage KM133", 8.0 loads the standard VESA driver. The motherboard has the part number P4MFP533. > http://www.redhat.com/software/ > Red Hat has chosen to split their products into two lines, consumer and > enterprise. > > The consumer line that has and always will be free has accelerated in > development because they no longer need to maintain binary compatibility > with older distributions. They have made indications that they no > longer will need to release point releases. This means that R&D can > happen at a much faster pace, and every 6 months you can get the newest, > coolest stuff with the free version of Red Hat. In order to reduce > their overhead and focus more engineer time on R&D, they only guarantee > to release updates for the consumer Linux distribution up to a year > after its release. Their stance seems a lot of double speak. In the past a dot release meant smaller but significant improvements. A rose by anyother name.... > The enterprise line takes the best of the more experimental technology > and every 1.5 years releases a new product aimed for the > enterprise/business market where 6 month turnaround is too quick. With > a much longer product QA cycle their enterprise linux distributions are > meant to be used for years without upgrading. For technologists like me > that is a boring prospect, but consistency is important for business. > They guarantee 5 years of support for their enterprise Linux > distributions. > > Their enterprise Linux distributions are not free, instead with a cost > and different support options attached to it. Unlike SuSE however Red > Hat's Enterprise distributions are still 100% Open Source, so nothing > stops you from downloading all the source code, compiling and installing > it yourself. You just don't get their support services. > > Warren They are certanly the leaders, I wonder if 9.0 will turn into their "Windows ME" - a product really rushed that they wish they never had released.
