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RedHat 9.0, 9.0.93 Beta?, Fedora, What's Going On?
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| EnterANote 2004-01-23, 7:09 pm |
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First of all sorry for the cross-post.
I am a long time user of RedHat and I am very happy with it.
I am still using RedHat 7.3 because of the control panel I have on top
of the O/S.
Can someone shed some light on the fact that RH will no longer support
RH 7.x, 8.0 and not even 9.0 starting early next year.
I pay for RH Network approx. $60/year for the up2date feature and keep up
to date with erratas and patches, or download ISO at a priority speed/date.
I was given an email about migrating to RH WS. But I don't know if that'll
work
you see WS is for Work Station and I am running my Email Server, DNS, and
Web
Server all in one machine. Than I have to use the RH ES which is more
money.
Why is RH turning into M$. Let alone free hosting provider or do free
broadcasting
community now I have to fork out major dough while I am loosing colo fees as
we
speak.
I read about Fedora and it will not be supported by RedHat. Who will handle
the RPM updates (e.g. up2date). Fedora is not even listed as an option to
download
from the RHNetwork but front page yes, at about 40k/speed or 6 hr download
vs
the 1.5 hr or less for the other ISOs.
Why is RedHat working on 9.0.93 Beta if they are not supporting 9.0 in near
future;
unless they will take the new beta with a new name.
Personally I think the Open Source people/community using or giving to
Fedora Project
will end up being used by RH. They will grab the best of Fedora and
implement
into their ES, WS, and AS RH as a main feature and make more money on it.
I know there is always an alternative such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Debian and
so on.
I personally liked the Interface to RHNetwork and keep my server up 2 date
and keep
track of changes. The Control Panel interface works real well with RH and
no issues
breaking the GUI.
So will Fedora be a good option, will people use it or at least be supported
for
updates and such. I read that the life-time/up cycle for support si 2-3
months,
the RH Enterprise if 5 years.
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html
Please post here any feedback opinions and such. There is also talk about
tweaking RH 9.x to make it believe it ES/WS/AS in order to fool up2date and
still
get your UPDATES from RedHat and continue on the subscription yearly.
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