Your previous Post was in reply to someone who had asked you about your experience with Debian or a BDS derivitive as a replacement for RH. The user was obviously talking about replacing the free RH(8 or 9). My entire post addressed the issue of trying to replace RH8 or 9 with something like Debian or FreeBSD and what won't be gained. I tried to address the person you were replying to with more information about their main reason for complaining about Fedora (updates). Most people taking issue with Fedora on this list never actually had anything other than RH8 or 9. They weren't using Enterprise; this noticeable from the talks of affordability. Enterprise and Advanced RH has cost money for a while now. So, I was attempting to clarify that if users are using RH8 or RH9 and they only have a RHN account for updates they shouldn't be worrying about Fedora as a replacement to those particular versions. They are actually getting off better. Then explaining the difference between a Debian or FreeBSD vs Fedora pertaining to backing and direction with corporate backing being key. It wasn't a rant, but an attempt to clarify where so many apparently don't understand the differences between RH8/9, Fedora, and the Enterprise offerings. Most questions on this topic seem more related to someone attempting to replace RH with another distro because they were previously using 8 or 9 and now they have Fedora, and some how they feel they are being jipped. The differences in those models shouldn't be an issue. The price they are paying for the updates to those versions vs what they get with Fedora and will get from the new model favor Fedora to be superior. Enterprise vs. Fedora = two different ball games. That was the point. RH 8 and 9 have always been the testing ground. Wade -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Dixon Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 7:17 PM To: Red Hat Mailing List Subject: RE: looking for comments/reactions to the fedora project On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:45, Wade Chandler wrote: > This information was found in a single click from the Fedora web site. > > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/updates.html > > Notice what is considered a "Fedora Update", a "Proposed Fedora > Update", and a "Development Package". Fedora updates are available by > using up2date. Anyways, I think people are getting freaked out for no > reason when they are getting the same deal they got for 60 for free if > they were using RH8 or 9. I'm not sure what this has to do my post, as I'm not even considering Fedora for production business servers. My clients require something that maximizes their consulting investment (read: me). Having to upgrade every 4-6 months is not an option for many of them. This is why I investigated the alternatives from FreeBSD and Debian/Libranet, comparing them to the closest "SOHO" offering from RH. I'm not sure where your rant(?) comes from. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
