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Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the straight-from-the-tea-leaves dept.

Tony Mobily has written a thought-provoking editorial for Free Software Magazine that makes the bold prediction of Red Hat's eventual demise at the hands of Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Calling on memories of Red Hat alienating their desktop user base to focus on their corporate customers and making money, Mobily states that many of those alienated desktop users are also system administrators who now feel more comfortable with Ubuntu and will make the choice to use Ubuntu Server over Red Hat now and in the future.

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  1. Re:Bologna! by Sunda666 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, but one can hope.

    I could have nothing against RH, but some PHB-type fucks insist to have that crap as a 'standard', so I sometimes have to enjoy the joys of EXT3fs and all that crap. Well, it could be worse, it could be windows server.

    So, I hope they die horribly so we can use saner things, like gentoo or slack.

    cheers

    --


    ``If a program can't rewrite its own code, what good is it?'' - Mel
  2. Re:Ubuntu *has* paid enterprise support, people! by dAzED1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Alternatively, has anyone ever actually used RedHat support? *I* wasn't impressed...

    And I haven't been impressed by Ubuntu. Not their support - just the distro itself. I HATE the freaking hand-holding. It's worse than what Microsoft does.

    I've never needed to use support from RedHat myself. I've run 4 different distros in corp environments, never needed support for any of them. If there's a problem, I can find it myself, and maybe I'll let them know if I have time. But Ubuntu?

    I don't see sysadmins flocking to it. I see unemployed hippies that volunteer at their local libraries using it, but not one single professional linux sysadmin that I know uses Ubuntu. Tried it out, sure. Use it for any period of time? Hell no. If I want my hand held, I'll go install XP and let Clippie tell me what to do.

  3. clueless users by muftak · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Red Hat used to be the distro of choice for clueless home users, now Red Hat focuses on clueless corporate users and all the clueless home users use Ubuntu. All the people with clue use Slackware or Gentoo.