Re: [SLUG] What to do with redhat going away?

From: Justin Keyes (twitch@port0.net)
Date: Wed Nov 05 2003 - 00:11:19 EST

That is not true. Fedora is a community-based, Red Hat-sponsored project,
that resembles Debian in its philosophy. It will be more cutting-edge,
and will have many development offerings, but it is certainly not
just a beta. It will have stable releases.

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:36:27 -0500
Christopher Hotchkiss <chotchki@mail.usf.edu> wrote:
> Fedora however is going to be for BETA testing.
> I would recommending switching to either Gentoo, Debian, and FreeBSD.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 07:03 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:05:18PM -0500, Seth Hollen wrote:
> > > I currently have 2 servers running rh linux (7.3 and 9). With redhat
> > > going away has anyone have thoughts on a distro to swtich to? I am still
> > > confused where fedora linux fits into the picture. It is my understanding
> > > that they will be releasing "desktop" versins of redhat??? Can I "upgrade
> > > to fedora"?? I am playing with debian but am still not 100% comfortable
> > > with it. I am going to try Suse again, but I remember a few years ago not
> > > liking their file structure.
> >
> > Fedora is:
> >
> > 1) Red Hat Linux renamed.
> > 2) Will not be a sold product by Red Hat (free as in beer).
> > 3) Will be constructed with more input and assistance from the user
> > community.
> > 4) Will not be supported by Red Hat.
> >
> > Paul
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