[luau] Re: Which Distribution To Go With

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Tue Nov 4 22:54:00 PST 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 22:37, John Johnson wrote:
> I appreciate all the input you all have given. I think I will try out
> the Fedora project over debian for now. I am used to RH9 and that alone
> may make it worth doing. I was planning to set up a newer, faster box,
> so I don't mind the reinstall and reconfiguring. I was a little
> disappointed that RH ditched the free community. I just hope Fedora
> finds roots and doesn't disappear should RH become fickle again and it's
> corporate sponsoring of Fedora dries up in the future. I can't really
> complain, since it's free, but even when I thought, "What the heck, I
> can shell out a couple hundred bucks if I HAVE to and buy it", I went to
> RH's site and the STARTING price was $349. Ouch. Oh well. I'll buy into
> Fedora. Thanks guys!

The "Red Hat" products are now for a totally different target market,
the previous high-end Unix market that is quickly crumbling under the
assault of Red Hat, SuSE and the other enterprise Linux makers.

Don't worry about Fedora disappearing or Red Hat abandoning the
community.  Everything in Fedora and even RH enterprise is still 100%
Open Source Software.  They have not compromised Open Source principles
in the name of corporate profit.

Warren




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