[TriLUG] No More Consumer Red Hat?

[Janyne Kizer]

On 10/21/2003 12:18 PM, David R.Matusiak wrote:
> hello Linux Users --
> 
> a co-worker just mentioned to me that (from what they had read) there 
> will be no Red Hat 10 product.  Fedora Core (free beta testers?) is 
> supposed to take over in that realm, and RH will continue to make/sell 
> "Enterprise" Linux products, but essentially that consumer-grade RH is 
> not long for this world.

Well, I have spoken to the sales guys at RH and the whole thing is a big 
mess for me and probably for many others.  We got the quote, scraped 
together the money and then found out that we would need to reinstall 
the servers (no upgrade from RH 7.2 or RH 9 to Enterprise).  I have 90 
RH servers in the field.  For me that would mean visiting 90 sites. 
Heck, even if the servers were all across the hallway that would still 
be a big mess.  If I have to reinstall anyway, then looking at other 
distributions seems reasonable.  We are still in the process of 
upgrading to RH 9.  I guess we'll worry about what comes next in January 
or so...    I suspect that we'll end up doing Fedora though.

-- 

Janyne Kizer
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology