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Rehat and Linux

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Redhat is ceasing production of their consumer free linux in favor of their "subscription for support" Enterprise version of Linux.

[url]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1371174,00.asp[/url]

Comments

  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    I *heart* Gentoo :D
  • John WalkerJohn Walker Shadowman
    My biggest complaint with Gentoo is the egos involved. That is not a bash of the distro, just a reminder that people need to remember their humility, even when faced with the greatest of all challenges... success.

    CurZ: Are you happy with Gentoo's support of security patches? (this is the biggest of my few and small complaints with Mandrake)

    Otherwise, I am very happy with Mandrake; particularly the great ease of disk configuration and installation.

    Yeah yeah, "but the French...". Hackers and nerds are just like hackers and nerds everywhere. These are my people and we understand each other. ;)

    :shadow1:
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I love Mandrake, but after a while (read: 3 years) the rpm system finally got to me. I tried debian, that lasted about a week. Now I'm a committed Gentoo user. :)
  • Captain,SimmondsCaptain,Simmonds Trainee trainee
    I getting Mandrake:)
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Aside from Biggles being my drug pusher (read: trying to get me to use Gentoo), I still am running Mandrake 9.1 release. I am SO pleased with it, that I haven't had the need (or the desire) to go through the effort for Gentoo...

    Maybe soon, but not right now...

    :D

    I wonder if Red Hat's decision has to do with SCO and their lawsuit?

    Such BS, but maybe in the end, the GNU license will finally be legally recognized or not... once and for all.
  • Captain,SimmondsCaptain,Simmonds Trainee trainee
    what Lawsuit?
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Captain,Simmonds [/i]
    [B]what Lawsuit? [/B][/QUOTE]

    [URL=http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5098610.html]This Article[/URL] in [URL=http://forums.firstones.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5340]this thread[/URL] .

    ;)
  • StrikerStriker Provided with distinction
    Our hosting servers run Gentoo. :) In fact, Firstones.Com is sitting on a customized Gentoo installation .
  • Captain,SimmondsCaptain,Simmonds Trainee trainee
    wow!!!!!!
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
    [B]Aside from Biggles being my drug pusher (read: trying to get me to use Gentoo), I still am running Mandrake 9.1 release. I am SO pleased with it, that I haven't had the need (or the desire) to go through the effort for Gentoo...

    Maybe soon, but not right now...[/b][/quote]

    I mainly like it because of how much I'm learning with it. With Mandrake, I found I wasn't really learning much.

    [quote][b]I wonder if Red Hat's decision has to do with SCO and their lawsuit?

    Such BS, but maybe in the end, the GNU license will finally be legally recognized or not... once and for all. [/B][/QUOTE]

    I think it's more likely that the realised they can make lots of money from selling support to big corporations, so it's better to put all their effort into developing a distro for that rather than one for home desktop users. I'm not too worried, since I think that a juggernaut in the corporate area is needed and that companies like Mandrake are doing a far, far better job at making a good, easy to use linux distro than Red Hat ever did.
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