[Techtalk] RedHat - Fedora Linux

[EevaJärvinen]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:37:33PM -0400, caitlynmaire at earthlink.net wrote:
> Thank you so much for the clarifcation.  It seems that support 
> (patches, etc..) for Red Hat through version 9 will die.  It seems 
> that 9.1 or 10 or whatever will instead be called Fedora Core 1, 
> but that it is essentially the same thing.  Of course, no shrink 
> wrapped copies and support limited to community and mailing 
> lists, but there will be errata (patches, whatever) available for 
> download.  That seems reasonable to me.

<angry>
But I, a RHN subscriber, don't like this a bit.  I chose RH precisely
because it had a commercial update service available for a reasonable
fee.  I'm perfectly willing to pay for updating if it's fast and
convenient.  RHN is.  If they won't have Fedora support in RHN (for a
fee, naturally), I have to think about switching to something that
supports Gnome nicely.  I don't want to tinker with updating important
things.  My computer gets all the errata automatically every two
hours, and that errata is GPG-signed.  I DO NOT WANT ANY SORT OF GEEKY
DIY UPDATING IN MY PRODUCTION MACHINE!  
</angry>

I also think that 200-euroish a year pricing (for the most basic
enterprise thing) is simply overkill for me.

> I don't know if this will help Red Hat turn a profit.  I seriously 
> doubt it.  I also don't think this will help corporate acceptance
>  of Linux at all.

It won't.  I work in a big NGO, near the IT dep., and this just cut
away one of the nice things about Linux: reasonably priced, automatic,
non-fiddly[1] updating, without reboots, I might add (but now only if you
remember to switch the auto-reboot off... oh, darn).  Another reason
to stay in XP...



Eeva

[1] non-fiddly meaning the sysadmin doesn't have to know about
sources-lists, meaning that it works the same way year in, year out,
meaning that you do not have to think about updating.  up2date+rhnsd
is not perfect, but it's the best thing I've used.

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