redhat

[David Dudek]

This discussion came up on another list that I'm on.  My reply has some
other information that people might be interested in:

Date:         Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:42:50 -0500
From:         David Dudek <dudek at BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: [linuxl] No more free Red Hat?

Yes, this was actually announced a few months ago. However, as referenced
at the end of the article, Red Hat will continue to foster a community
supported distribution, Fedora.

http://fedora.redhat.com/

>From what I understand, from a business perspective, this is similar to
what Netscape does with Mozilla. Fedora will have 2-3 releases per year,
each "supported" with updates via Red Hat Network for one year from the
release date. The big question is, will one of the release dates coincide
with our academic calendar?

Also, as the article mentions, there are other distributions. For
universities, Debian might be a good choice since it is an entirely
community supported open source distribution with an excellent software
update mechanism. The only real issue I see with Debian is its clunky,
arcane installer. However, there recently was news that there has been
some success in porting Red Hat's installer, anaconda, to Debian.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200310/msg01880.html

This isn't ready for public consumption yet at all. I'm curious to know if
this port of anaconda would encompass Red Hat's kickstart install
scripting facility as well.

-- 
David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Riga, Anthony wrote:

> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:57:36 -0500
> From: "Riga, Anthony" <Anthony.Riga at searbrown.com>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: RE: redhat
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> Yea I saw that. So will severn be the last of the free Redhat? Will we need to start to purchase the Enterprise versions?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Bennett [mailto:justin.bennett at dynabrade.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:44 AM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: redhat
>
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> Of the Redhat 9 general release type, they are focusing on the
> Enterprise products that make them revenue. They released redhat 9 to a
> project called Fedora.
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> http://fedora.redhat.com/
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> Justin Bennett
> Network Administrator
> RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
> Dynabrade, Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
> Clarence, NY 14031
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> Riga, Anthony wrote:
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> >I was reading that Redhat will no longer will be making any future versions of their OS.  Whats up with that?
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