On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 18:49 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I must confess I have this niggling feeling > that Redhat may not feel it is in their interest > for Fedora to be too easy to install and use, > as this might lesses the attraction of their commercial system. > I hope someone will tell me this is nonsense. > Here you go: it's nonsense. :-) The attraction of their commercial system is for corporations, who are the same people primarily and consistently forced to give Microsoft tons of money. RHEL-WS costs $180/year IIRC, which is WAAAAAAAY more than nearly anyone will pay for a home system. But those corporations do pay for it, and they pay primarily to get a five-year end-of-life commitment and some support. So "reducing the attraction" of Fedora is a non-issue; the people who really are the target market for RHEL will, in their large majority, not be interested in Fedora anyway. Tell an IT manager to reinstall every desktop at least once a year (assuming you skip every other release, even) and they'll throw fits. They want the same OS to stay on that box until the box is obsolete and removed from the user's desktop. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>