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[Joshua Altemoos]

Well if i could respond to one of the questions they list the Core 1
calander on there site @ http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
But Core 1 is out so =)

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> 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
>>
>> Yea I saw that. So will severn be the last of the free Redhat? Will we
>> need to start to purchase the Enterprise versions?
>>
>> -----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
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/
>>
>> Justin Bennett
>> Network Administrator
>> RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
>> Dynabrade, Inc.
>> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
>> Clarence, NY 14031
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Riga, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> >I was reading that Redhat will no longer will be making any future
>> versions of their OS.  Whats up with that?
>> >
>> >
>> >