Fate of RedHat

[Ed Wilts]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:26:39PM -0500, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> I'd be happy to pay for the updates, just don't care for the telephone
> support, etc.

Then Red Hat Professional Workstation may be for you.  It's effectively
RHEL WS without support - you get a full year of updates and a
multi-year life cycle.  It sells for about $80-85 which is in the same
range as the old RHL releases plus RHN.

Pro Workstation includes many but not all server pieces.  You get
sendmail, postfix, nfs server, samba, and apache but don't get bind nor
ldap servers.

Although there are multiple RHEL clones out (Whitebox LInux, etc) and
Red Hat does not have a problem with those being available, they can't
give you the prompt security fixes that Pro Workstation with your
included RHN subscription will give you.

        .../Ed

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-admin at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:redhat-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Thomas E. Dukes
> > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:22 PM
> > To: Redhat-List at Redhat. Com
> > Subject: Fate of RedHat
> > 
> > I was just wondering if there is a general concensus (sp) of 
> > what everyone is planning to do when RedHat 9.0 is no longer 
> > supported?
> > 
> > Are most going to the Fedora Project or paying to go to the 
> > Enterprise Linux?
> > 
> > The EL is freely available for download in .iso form on the 
> > internet if you "look".  Would I get in trouble for 
> > installing it?  I really don't care to pay for support anyway.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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