On Tuesday 04 November 2003 02:09 am, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > True, but I think this is a really silly move marketing-wise. The > biggest thing Red Hat had going for them is name recognition. When you > say Linux these days everyone almost always thinks in the same breath > "Red Hat". When you have a distro like "Fedora Core 1", that just > doesn't have the same sort of ring to it. Nothing in the name even > tells you that it's actually a Linux distro! They could have called it > Red Hat Fedora 1 (a.k.a. Red Hat 10), or if they had trouble with the > trademarks, perhaps even Fedora Linux 1.0. Bob Young understood this > very well, too bad his successors don't seem to share this vision.
Well, they did discontinue RH Linux. Fedora isn't exactly the same thing. It's a collection of projects, integrated, yes, but not a distro. Also, Fedora is maintained by an open community, not RH engineers. I think they wanted to make that distinction clear. From what I've seen, Red Hat 9 is mature enough to be left to the Fedora community. It's pretty stable, even as a desktop system. > Good luck on migrating to RHEL. It can become really expensive, though > not as expensive as MS-based solutions (yet), as some of our enterprise > clients have discovered. I don't think it's ever going to be the same as MS-based solutions (not only in terms of cost, but also in technical and marketing strategies, support, and compatibility/adaptability), if only for the fact that RH is still (much more) closely tied to enterprise standards and the open source community, and actively supports the GPL. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 02:15 am, Michael Reyes wrote: > Why will this happen? money issues? what happens to RH users? Read their statement at the website and news sites around. > Just when I was getting into this sys admin job.... Red Hat is discontinuing the RH Linux line, but that doesn't mean that usage of previous systems stops. We've been maintaining a RH 7.2 mail/web/network/routing setup here for a few years now, and I don't see any major reasons to change that anytime soon... Also, Fedora. Read the other posts regarding that. > Does this means SuSE will rule Linux? SuSE and UnitedLinux will probably gain ground. A lot of people used RH Linux for various server setups, but I'm not sure how many will be willing to pay for RH Enterprise. But no single group can "rule Linux". It belongs to the hackers who developed it. There's always good ol' Debian to turn to. Gentoo and Mandrake are plenty good, too. (Haven't tried Slack... ^_^) > Where is Sacha Chua by the way? Huh? I fail to see how this ties in with your other queries, but she usually hangs out at the Ateneo CS department. ;) See her schedule and more at her wiki (http://sacha.free.net.ph). -- Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Network Team III BSCS, Ateneo de Manila University You know you've been hacking too long when... you start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stops; -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
