Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life

egburr writes "Well, today is the last day for Red Hat Linux 9. The Fedora Legacy Project is supposed to start legacy support. I am still planning to stick with RHL9, for a while at least. How many others are planning to do the same? How many are switching to Fedora? How many are switching to some other distribution altogether? How many have already switched? For people still using earlier levels of Red Hat Linux (6.x,7.x,8), how well has the Fedora Legacy Project worked for you?"

Comments

Switched to XP

[drgonzo59]

I was using Redhat since I have a RAID adapter (MegaRAID, now LSI Logic) and they only had drivers for Redhat and some older verions of Suse (all binary), so in order to use my RAID array I am forced to use MS Windows. But if it weren't for that I would use Gentoo probably, until they decide to do what Redhat did then I'll use FreeBSD.

Re:SuSE

[grepistan]

Well, I've never had a problem installing any version of RH from 6 onwards, currently at fedora core 1, which is excellent by the way. As a home user I'm not overly concerned about security patches and the like either, so I will be sticking with Fedora for the moment.

Re:Who's responsible?

[mrscorpio]

The problem was, for the first few months, Fedora Core 1 was a piece of crap. Now that it's matured a bit...it's still not as good as SuSE or Mandrake, but I don't feel Red Hat ever was once those two distros got off the ground, at least on the desktop. The up2date utility STILL takes a dump if you try to install more than one update at a time, so you have to use another app to stay up to date; most use yum from the command line, and it's not too bad, though I prefer URPMI or portage.

Hearing rumors of developer strife Re: FC2, I'm not confident for the future of that distro...I think Mandrake's similar yet different release scheme is a lot better (mostly because they've always been community-oriented, not changing horses midstream like RH), and SuSE is an all commercial outfit. I don't see a place for Fedora Core as a free distro either, with Gentoo, Debian (and derivatives), Slackware, and Mandrake all being much more established (and better in their niches).

Fedora just seems like the bastard child of Red Hat, only kept around so that they can say "hey, we like free software too!" But I think the quality, at least thusfar, diminishes my confidence toward their commercial offering, especially considering that I've only really liked one RH version ever (8).

Chris

I never see that comming

[MrJones]

damn, so we have to switch to fedora now, mmm, this is too much coorporate for Linux.
Lets make debian rule the world