On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 13:53, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:54:51AM -0500, Warren Johnson wrote: > > I'm using a Promise RAID controller on my home system with 6 drives. I > > wanted to try it before I put it on a lot of other systems. I haven't > > had any problems with it, but it does take Promise a long time to get > > new drivers out. The latest version of RedHat I can use is 7.2. > > This will start to get really interesting with Red Hat's significantly > shortened end-of-life announcements. It won't be long before vendors > like Promise can no longer say they support Red Hat Linux if the version > they support is no longer supported by Red Hat. 8.0 will be > end-of-lifed by Dec 31, 2003. > > .../Ed >
I thought that it was interesting too. My guess is that there was a marketing decision made to try and drive those folks that are server based ( a guess that these are the folks who abhor upgrading machines) to redhat advanced server since that is the long life cycle product. This is bound to reduce costs big time. I guess they sort of like being profitable. Sort of a bummer since we use the distro for non server based tasks but require considerable testing before rolling out a config. I would think that this will slow down the acceptance of RHL on the corporate desktop as well for the same reason. Maybe there will be a corporate desktop release to handle this, but not availible in binary unless you pay for it. Interesting times indeed. As people (read corporations ) begin to evaluate linux side by side with windows I wonder where the priceing has to be before windows looks better. Significant differences still exist of course but thre eis a considerable difference between free and what ever windows xp costs. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
