[gnhlug-announce] Year-end Merrimack Valley Linux User Group Meeting, TONIGHT (12/15)

[Rob Lembree]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 13:10, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:33, Rob Lembree wrote:
> 
> > 	Rob asked about the issue of "Now that Red Hat is not
> > 	handing out things for free, what are the alternatives"
> 
> Strange - Fedora is free and so are the updates, so it seems to me that
> they are still handing things out for free.

Fedora's not the same as a commercially built and tested
product -- this isn't to say that it lacks quality, but it's
a fundamentally different development model, and therefore
a fundamentally different product.  Consider for example that
Mandrake was once a modified Red Hat packaging.  Since that
time it's differentiated itself dramatically.  I expect that
Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise will diverge in much the same
way.  I don't think that Fedora is a plug-in replacement for
Red Hat yet.

I for one am not inclined to blindly move to Fedora just because
I'm used to Red Hat.  Perhaps the right answer for me is to pay
the $99 a year to Red Hat.  Perhaps it's to move to SuSE or
Mandrake.  Maybe Fedora or User Linux is the best choice.
Each distribution has its unique reason for being.

Since Red Hat's primary distribution has changed its focus from
a general user desktop to a more stable business desktop, it's
a good time for RH users to ask themselves what they want in 
a distribution, and choose.  RH users are going to undergo a
change no matter how you slice it.  Fortunately for us, we're
Linux users and we can make a choice!  :-)

r

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