Upcoming Redhat 10 (or whatever it will be called)

[Jack Aboutboul]

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 19:26 Asia/Jerusalem, ctalk at austin.rr.com 
wrote:

> Okay, I have read news stories saying Red Hat will be leaving the 
> retail
> distro channel. Can someone clarify if this is true? It would not 
> bother me
> so much, but will it also mean the end of the boxed set? Will Red Hat 
> go
> with a magazine style subsription as they are doing in Europe (I 
> believe -
> my German and Italian are not perfect, so I am only guessing that 
> RedHat
> Magazine is run by Red Hat)?
>
> Does anyone know the answers? Just want to know what to do when Severn
> becomes the next version.
>
>

Chuck,

	RedHat is actually leaving the "boxed distro" business as far as 
redhat 10 is concerned. This complies with the shift of the actual 
"user" distro's status which is now called "Red Hat Linux Project." You 
can read more about that and the shift of development power somewhere 
on redhat's site. If someone can provide the link I would be much 
obliged, I'm too tired to go digging. RedHat is basically going to 
focus on selling their enterprise line of stuff while drawing on the 
base distro as a source of packages and advancements. Basically, the 
new distro is gonna be like the testing grounds for the new technology 
to be included into the enterprise line. ISO's will still be available 
for the distro for download from the usual mirrors. As far as redhat 
magazine I know nothing about that. Hope I was of some help.


Thanks,
Jack