[geeks] RedHat restructure

[Brian]

I'm learning ldap novell style now, its so unfortunate they couldnt market
their way out of a wet paper bag..

    Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin" <kevin at mpcf.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:55 AM
Subject: [geeks] RedHat restructure


> There appears to be a major change taking place at RedHat.  RedHat is
dropping support for 7,1, 7.2
> and 8.0 at the end of this year and will drop support for 9.0 in April of
next year.  From then on
> out there will be no more products released in the "RedHat Linux line".
They will be focusing on
> their business targeted line, "RedHat Enterprise Linux".
>
> To replace the "free download" version of RedHat Linux that is so popular,
they will be sponsoring a
> new project "Fedora".  This will be an open source, community supported
linux distribution and will
> not be officially supported by RedHat itself.
>
> http://www.newsforge.com/business/03/10/23/1156204.shtml?tid=17
> http://fedora.redhat.com/
>
> Interesting, especially considering Novell's purchase plans for Suse,
RedHat's number one
> competitor.
>
> /KRM
>
> -- 
> "Microsoft is fighting these initiatives (OSS in government) like a
cornered badger on
> amphetamines."
>
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