Jesse Keating wrote:
Sure, there is some stuff for desktop, however the release itself was
not completely geared for desktop. There was plenty in the release that
has no business on a desktop system.
I have to agree with you on that one, Jesse. It wasn't a
perfectly-tailored desktop. But one of the neat things about Red Hat
Linux was that they gave you so much more than what would be needed for
a desktop. That's why I was so enamored of RHL.
While I am strongly pro-Red Hat, I'm another who felt a little bit
abandoned
when RH9.0 went end-of-life. The Fedora community does well for
support,
but it is not a substitute for having someone who will receive your
email
and promises to deliver an answer.
This I always questioned. At what time could you get Red Hat Technical
Support for a Red Hat Linux product? (not Red Hat Professional or Red
Hat Enterprise, Red Hat Linux).
Well, I know that support was available for Red Hat 8.0 because I bought
the boxed set and received the 30 days of email support. I actually had
occasion to use it and found that I got what I needed. Support was also
provided as far back as v 5.2 (the first release I tried) although I
never had to use it then. I recall some higher levels of support you
could pay for.
After the thirty days, you had to pay $60 a year (or more depending on
support level) for continued support and updates. Signing on was easy
online, but signing off was a challenge (to do so, one had to send a
registered letter 60 days prior to expiration to Red Hat's address in
North Carolina.).
If you are curious, I can try to dig out the specific data from my old
package.
And if you look at the release history of Fedora Core, it has been about
every 6 months. The range is 4 to 8 months, and we just happen to land
on 6~ for the first four releases....
I think I stand corrected on that one, Jesse. I was working on the 3-4
month target that I remembered reading from the Web site, but I might
not be remembering correctly. Apologies for getting it wrong.
Erik
