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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.
so long, and thanks for all the RPMs.
Are you secure enough in your masculinity to run 'man touch'?
Oh noes, only 59818932 distros left! What will we do?
New Coke.
Probably not their best move to date.
You can switch to Debian today and get the same distro you would have gotten if you had switched two years ago.
Since it *owns* Linux, maybe SCO will pick up support for the RH family...of course you'll need to send in your $$$ before SCO will "activate" you.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
"- Open source healthcare"
/.?
Is that going to be anything like the Open Source legal advice you get here on
geek#1: I have this rash on my ass and I can't find anything in the man, wiki or google about it. Anyone have an idea what this is and what I can do about it?
geek#2: IANAD but...
Maybe now the "BSD is dead" trolls will turn their attention to Red Hat?
Excuse the wishful thinking...
Helevius
RedShyat.BeeYotch aka "Anonymous Coward" (yes it is I who is a free-loafer)
..thinks that this whole issue with RedHat discontinuing their free support for a free product that they themsleves have to pay for and more importantly strive to work towards making may be a good step to bring back the roots of the wonderful open source community. This can hopefully spur a wider embracement of all the distro's out there (which are really just _easy_ interfaces to the most important part.. the wonderful kernel!). The modularity of the kernel and the distribution of various systems to be made and compiled together into one little glorious environment we coined the distro is simply just that. A distro. One that's no longer available freely is okay, I hope that the talented folks over at the RH offices whom can sit all day and code 'n compile to our own benefit can hopefully turn some coin to better help their company become successful. Afterall my fellow ./'s, this is a capitalist economy, not a 1969 save the tree's and freely give out and accept my monopoly money as currency! ;-b If individuals do not want to pay for suppport and upgrades, then fine, learn how to support yourself! Indulge yourself in the very knowledge they use to better help you before you perform the stoning ;-) Or better yet, go free-loaf off of SCO so they can be driven out of business, such a nobel way to fight for the linux community! :-D
[[extends hand smiling]]
Anyone want a chocolate covered pretzel?
--RedShyat.BeeYotch
[eof]
It looks like I would have to stump up two lots of $379 just to get a two copies of Enterprise and 12 months of update for my two boxes.
Aren't you supposed to pay $699 for each box?
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
Employee (chanting): Gentoo is faster than the other distributions because software is built and optimized for the computer that it will be run on. I have way more control of my system, as well. Gentoo marks the end to dependency hell because of it's superior package management system, portage. I will never use "b0rked" rpm again. Installing software is as easy as "emerge app," and all the dependencies are installed for me! I can update my entire system with one command, "emerge -u world."
PHB: What the hell are you talking about?
Other employees enter the office, all chanting in sync with eachother. They begin to slowly walk towards the PHB. PHB gets frightened.
All the employees (chanting): Gentoo is faster than the other distributions because software is built and optimized for the computer that it will be run on. I have way more control of my system, as well. Gentoo marks the end to dependency hell because of...
PHB: No, this isn't happening. NOOOOOOOOO!
Fadeout. Credits.
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