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Red Hat Announces Product EOL Calendar
BrunoC writes "Looks like Red Hat is getting a little Microsoftish and is quietly introducing its brand new 12-month-only Errata. Quoting The Reg: 'Red Hat's current death list EOLs RH 7.1-8.0 at the end of this year, while 6.2 and 7.0 get theirs as of the end of March.' You can read the whole article here." I don't see how this is "Microsoftish" -- the code Red Hat creates or includes is still GPL, and you can pay anyone willing to fix it. They're not required to support it forever :)
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What time is it? Huh. And France is still annoying. But Germany won't be once that fucker Gerhard Schroder loses a no-confidence vote. Germany has always been much better country that France. They musta just forgot about that when they elected that fucking socialist Schroder.
Also, cut it out with the "M$" crap. It's childish and reflects poorly on the Linux community. Think about this, how intelligent do the trolls that post "LUNIX SUXORS" look to you? Yes, well - when I see you type "M$", I lump you into the same category.
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I do not recall Redhat supporting any of their distro releases for 8 years.
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Yeah, it didn't take them 8 years to fix all the problems & security issues.
I've always used Windowz and I consider myself an exceptional Visual Basic programmer, so I know computers pretty good. In fact I got an A- in my programming class last term. But I'm a little wary of how much power Microsoft has in the computer field. Many of my friends use RedHat and I've recently installed it on my machine at home. Although I haven't had as much chance to play with it as I'd like, I've been greatly impressed.
This weekend I gave some thoughts to the things that are wrong with Linux. I hope no one minds having some flaws pointed out. I'd like to help make RedHat stronger so it can conquer MS. Hopefully RedHat will hear this (crossing fingers) and address these. I think with a little effort, RedHat's Linux can defeat Microsoft's Windows! :)
To begin with, there are too many different flavors of RedHat. Browsing a list on Amazon, I saw they made varients under the codenames of Mandrake, Debian and Slackware, just to name a few. I know that I'm very new to RedHat so maybe this is obvious but it seems like RedHat should just sell a few different flavors of its operating system. Perhaps one for the desktop and one for a server? Could someone explain why RedHat produces dozens of different versions of Linux?
Secondly did you know that anyone can view the source code to Linux! I think that RedHat shouldn't make its code available. After all, what keeps Microsoft from stealing RedHat's ideas and putting it into Windows? My friend says that FreeBSD stole the TCP/IP stack from DOS a long time ago and Microsoft is always looking for revenge for that. Plus it seems to me like RedHat is just giving away its ideas for free. And what keeps hackers or terrorists from tampering with the code and putting a virus in every computer?
On a related note, why doesn't RedHat write Linux in assembly? My friend says that's what Microsoft does for Windows, and that's why Windows is faster and more stable than Linux.
Next RedHat definitely should kill -9 (ha, ha!) the command line. Microsoft finally gave up DOS when Windows 2000 came out. I'm suprised that RedHat hasn't migrated away from...whatever its version of DOS is called (Bash, I think?) But maybe this is planned for a future release?
Finally Linux needs games! RedHat will never be successful in the home without games. They should also tell M$ to release a version of Office for Linux too. And Internet Explorer!
Have a nice day! Go Linux!!
I totally agree with you dnaumov, I've named this policy "Microsoftish" due to the Win 95 support model, which RedHat has taken to the next level... I know it's unfair, but i'm just naming it after the most famous EOL supporter known to mankind.
For companies trying to run Linux as part of their enterprise, this is not something you "get accustomed to" and the fact that it's Linux and not Windows doesn't make it any better.
Come on RedHat is the MS of the linux world.
Case in point: do an ls -l on your redhat box and then ls -l on almost any other unix box
You will notice that the listing on RedHat is not correct:
RedHat ls:
Aaa
aaa
BBB
Any other would be
Aaa
BBB
aaa
There is quite a number of others things redhat scarifices to be more user friendly(or something)
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it is bad for business or I hate RedHat, just an observation.
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