I totally agree. I was wondering the same things. Just didn't write the email.
Greg On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 19:42, Michael Torrie wrote: > I must say I was surprised how much traffic has been generated here and > other places (say slashdot) over RedHat's move to spin RHL off and > create the Fedora project. People are saying things, like "time to > reevaluate Suse," or "time to go back to debian." While Suse and Debian > have merit on their own, I have to ask why are you saying such things > and expressing horror over redhat's move? Many on slashdot are whining > about not being able to use redhat for free on their servers any more. > Clearly there are some things I'm either missing here, or everyone who > is saying such things is just misinformed. The Fedora project makes RHL > more debian-like than ever before. How is this a bad thing? Most of us > on this list have never needed the kind of tech support that RedHat > sells and as such we won't be impacted at all. Fedora is simply RH10 to > us. > > When the time comes, I'll run Fedora on my servers. Why not? There's > no reason at all not to. Fedora goes through almost the same Q/A as > Redhat put RHL through before. Besides, the stable fedora stuff becomes > RHEL, and I can always download RHEL packages for things like samba, > nfs, and the kernel. Running Fedora on a server is no more unstable or > outrageous than running Debian. Redhat is still going to pour money > into their free Fedora distro; after all Fedora is the feeder tree for > RHEL. > > In short, I don't get what we've lost generally. Sure if I want support > I'll have to pay for RHEL, but then that would have been what I would > have done anyway. I totally agree. I was wondering the same things, just didn't write the email. Greg ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
