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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.
oooh i hate them soooo much!!! DARRR
Yeah, since you switched to Gentoo, the only thing you have to worry about is the anonymous gay anal sex in the men's bathroom.
Forget about Redhat, why would you want to use this amateur operating system from a niche vendor anyway? Today, Mac OS X is the only real choice for true Unix enthusiasts. It is the most advanced operating available today, runs on the fastest and most advanced hardware available today, and has the benefits of professional developers standing behind it. It has a better GUI, more applications, and even powers the worlds fastest supercomputers! Think different, think professional, think Apple!
No problem for me either. I'm using a real OS. Windows XP Pro.
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It is official; Netcraft confirms: Red Hat Linux is dying. One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Red Hat community when IDC confirmed that Red Hat market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Red Hat has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
Red Hat is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a genius to predict Red Hat's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Red Hat faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Red Hat because Red Hat is dying. Things are looking very bad for Red Hat. As many of us are already aware, Red Hat continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Fact: Red Hat Linux is dying
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I've always wanted to say that.
FreeBSD Is In Your Future.
- A happy FreeBSD user since version 4.1
I used run 30+ assorted web/dns/ftp servers on FreeBSD. I got sick of the crashes and security holes -- the *BSD community was also extremely difficult to deal with.
Eventually, I took the plunge and put Red Hat Linux on the boxes (this is back in the 7.x days). Migration was painless, and I got loads of help from newsgroups and the like. Never regretted it.
I'll admit that, when I heard RH was dropping support, I was more than a little worried, but then I read about Fedora and the work being done by the community with legacy packages. It's not perfect, but if Fedora (and the legacy community support) plays out it could be the next best thing.
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$. You do not deserve to run Linux if you think that its comparable to M$.
They only discontinue the usage of the "Red Hat" label on the free distro. Otherwise things remain the same.
YOU upgrades YOU!
meh this retard. while linux in general and debian is shit, the only reason you couldnt do it is you are a fucking idiot.
and if redhat 7.3 is as far back as you go, you are a newbie fucking idiot moron whose commentary is
USELESS.
learn to shut the fuck up, loserboi.