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.

Comments

Redhat wants your Unix not your MS

[geekp0wer]

RedHat has never wanted to displace M$. If you have to argue between M$ and Linux at your place of work then you are amatures. Redhat has know that their business model works when they compete for the same business as Sun Solaris, HP UX, and IBM AIX. There they can make the argument that RedHat Linux is cheaper, more stable, and usually faster. While I think that Redhat completely screwed this up they are still a good product when compaired to the large commercial unix choices. You can not compare any Linux disto to M$. You do not deserve to run Linux if you think that its comparable to M$.

it's only a name change

[halfelven]

They only discontinue the usage of the "Red Hat" label on the free distro. Otherwise things remain the same.