Red Hat to end product line

Red Hat announces end of RHL product line


By Online Staff
November 4, 2003



Red Hat, the most widely used commercial Linux distribution, has announced that it will not release any more products in the Red Hat Linux line.


In an email to customers of its Red Hat Network, the company said those who wished to continue using the Red Hat line would have to migrate to the Enterprise line of products.

There are three lines of the Enterprise product - Enterprise Linux Workstation, Enterprise Linux Server and Enterprise Linux Advanced Server. The prices range from $US179 for the workstation product to $US18,000 for the advanced server version that runs on the IBM zSeries and s/390. Versions of the advanced server which run on other platforms, like the x86, cost less.

In the email, Red Hat said it would discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 on April 30 next year. Maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 would cease from December 31 this year.

This means that users who want a Red Hat-style distribution free would have to resort to using Fedora, which is styled as a "a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project." Fedora is not a supported product of Red Hat.


http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...708181724.html

:( Well there goes my distribution free Red Hat ! No patches ! Upgrade! for Red Hat Linux 9 from April 30 next year. Has anyone used Fedora, and would they recommend it ?

Dr_Evil

WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bout time they kicked over!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, in case you are wondering without reading, Iv heard the reason was that by the time they got the thing boxed and shipped there were security holes and ****. Anyway, seems more like they dont like the bullshit to put up with. Oh well, doesnt bother me:


http://www.suse.com

Use SuSE, your graphics card will quit lagging!

Man that is horse sh!7. I saw it coming though;.

Thanks dude ,

I think I'll try out Suse.

Dr_EVIL

ahaha gore, acting like a vulture...

maybe get a decent distro : www.gentoo.org :p

yup

www.slackware.com

Well cant say its much of a surprise. Now their making money from the Enterprise line and they got a big name for themselves i guess they dont care about the people who have given them such a big name.
Nevermind, looks like its time to find a new distro.

Metallica hat! Lolololololololol. The hell with who got you rich, it's all about staying that way right? Shrekkie poppin up more Gentoo again. *slaps forehead* And Jinxy with slackware. I sence an elitist war coming on.

We should make our own distro benchmark contest.

Anyone wanna participate ?

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Originally posted here by .: Shrekkie :.
ahaha gore, acting like a vulture...

maybe get a decent distro : www.gentoo.org :p

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Well, he has been going on about it for so long, and after reading his recent post

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=250555

Awww, it was such a nice story, he has eventually won me over, and I'm going to give it a try.

At least I'll know where to go for Tech Support

I haven't used fedora yet, but a colleague of mine sings its praises - much much faster than RH9

When I get the chance I'll perorm an upgrade and let folks know how it goes.

Steve

ahhh wtf, I guess they have there reasons but damnit.... well suse/slack here we come.

hey dudes,

looks like Mandrake has been getting more hits.

http://www.distrowatch.com

Also check this out :


Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux Technology Company SUSE LINUX

http://www.suse.com/us/company/press...vell_suse.html


Dr_Evil

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=250601

I knew that I'd have to go to a different distro eventually. What's really sad, as was mentioned earlier, is that Red Hat has basically turned it's corporate back on the people who made it what it is today. I knew they were going to go "corporate" eventually.

I'm switching to SuSe next week. Possibly another distro if the Novell thing screws with it. (Slackware anyone?)

I have been using redhat for over a year now. I really liked it. :(

Maybe I will migrate to SuSe.

Well, I've tried out Fedora, and it was very much like RedHat 9, just a bit more only desktopy, as Xires pointed out on Unerror IRC use of shell in RedHat Linux and Fedora is getting less and less with every release. As for Gentoo and Slackware, they are very good linux distro's, good for learning, and using! Same with SuSE Linux, I like it alot.

-MB