I agree also. We have invested so much in Red Hat here at the University of Pittsburgh. I and another colleague have been fighting up hill battles for Red Hat, against the Solaris admins and other Unix sysadmins. We have a lab that was installed 2 years ago to promote Red Hat on campus and let students get exposure. Now we have a product(fedora) that at first glance seems in no way associated with Red Hat. all of those users we were trying to get using Red Hat and show them something different are now stuck with figuring out what to use next. If fedora is the next version of Red hat, like someone said earlier, why did they have to change the name and drop support for it? Red hat is obviously moving to a more corporate stance and we must ask ourselves is that what linux is all about? I understand the need to make money but they are abandoning the methods and practices that made them successful. It is going to be bad for their business in the long run. Any way a co-worker has been really pushing for us to look at Suse and now we will really start to look at other distros. I wonder if anyone at Red Hat thought about how many customers they were going to send to other distros by doing this? Anyone? Sad to see a great product end this way Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Zate [mailto:zate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:57 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: new release? Totally agree, if there isnt a freely downloadable version of Redhat that has regular errata and can be updated with RHN, then I for one will be looking at Suse. RHEL is great, but there is a real need for what they have now. > Mandrak and Suse are going to kill them if they go though with it. I > am a long time user and not happy at all about this. > > ~joel > -- IT is Dead. The industry is Shot Join Others Who Feel Your Pain http://www.internalstrife.com/ _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
