Thank you for your reply. I just talked to sales on the telephone. From what he said, all the features of the Red Hat Enterprise product is available on the internet, just not assembled the same. Version 2 is based on RH 7.1 (or 2) and version 3 will be based on RH 9.0. In purchasing the enterprise products, a buyer has to sign a contract requiring them to have only one machine per support contract or the contract is voided. IF someone compiles all the free source code, they could (I believe, based on the conversation) distribute the disks, however, that doesn't account for the updates Red Hat makes. They may not be freely available except to subscribers.
Either compiling all the options or consolidating all the necessary files for an Advanced server can get you a legitimate copy for free, but the ease of installation, support, and updates will be more difficult, if not impossible to keep up with. As for the Up2Date, it seems to me that if that feature goes away, then someone will recreate or modify it to be more flexible. i.e. Create a version that retrieves RPMs from volunteer sites or from a server. In other words, I download the rpms and save them on a server. The Up2Date upgrade on all my other computers sees the updates and does its thing or I can assign a url or ip address to gather the updates from someone elses site. (Just a guess, I guess.) Well, for now there is still a big cloud. I guess it will be lifted sometime during the next 30 days. Buck -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fedora On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:14:35PM -0400, Buck wrote: > Being a newbie to all this, I am a little confused. > > Here's what I am reading, someone tell me if I am right or wrong. > > 1. a) I just downloaded the free ISOs of Red Hat, booted my > computer and installed RH 9.0 directly from them. > b) This will no longer be available. Wrong. You'll still be able to download the free ISOs of Fedora. > c) Red Hat will make source code available for their Enterprise > software at no cost. They always have. This isn't changing now. > d) In order to get and use it for free, I have to compile all the > sourcecode and produce my own executables etc. Right. You still won't get updates - RHEL is subscription based, unlike most traditional products. > 2. a) The Fedora Project is sponsored by Red Hat to help produce > products similar to the 9.0 I just downloaded. Right. > b) Instead of downloading Red Hat ISOs, I will now be downloading > Fedora ISOs to continue upgrading and working with my free version of > Red Hat Linux. Right. > 3. Will the Fedora Project Releases be compatible to existing Red > Hat? In other words, can I upgrade what I have to Fedora or will I > have to start with Fedora from scratch? Severn is the current beta for Fedora. You can upgrade from RHL 9 to Severn, although updates to/from betas are not (never have been) supported. Whether or not you can upgrade from a future product to an even more future product is pure speculation at this point. I doubt that even Red Hat knows (although they may have goals). > 4. Will the Red Hat Enterprise software be allowed to be compiled > and distributed freely without support? I can see a new market on > ebay for Red Hat ÕÑrprise compiled CDs and ISOs. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
