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Red Hat Linux Support To End
Orbital Sander writes "Received a missive this morning from the Red Hat Network, stating that they will discontinue maintenance on Red Hat Linux 7.x and 8.0 by the end of 2003, and on Red Hat 9.0 by the end of April, 2004. And, more ominously: 'Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line.' [The full text of the email is on Newsforge.] Kind of the end of an era, and the new king has already been appointed: Red Hat Linux is dead! Long live Red Hat Enterprise Linux! Looks like they realized that only their support contract-based version of the product was making them any money." Readers also note that Red Hat is pointing users to the free Fedora Project.
Who do I know that uses Redhat? No one, really, except maybe a couple of people who have dualboots and claim that "the computer is running linux version 9! what kernel? version 9 of course!"
Everyone seems to be on Mandrake or Debian.
What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.-Edward Abbey
No, the point of Linux is to have an Open Source operating system. If all you care about is cost, you should pirate M$ software like the rest of the world.
If you want an Open Source operating system with guaranteed support RH Enterprise is still a good deal. Although the support and distribution limitations to RHE are not a traditional Linux model, it is still compliant with the GPL.
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?