On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > I think they are aiming at the suits and not the home user. I have a > feeling that Red Hat is looking to make their money by slaughtering > Microsoft on the enterprise desktop and server.
Bingo. "Hmm, I need to deploy a blah blah with 2000 workstations and a hundred servers. Lookie, Red Hat is $XXX cheaper." I think this is a good thing. At the very least, nothing has changed. Red Hat-backed project (RHL, now Fedora) provides a "testing ground" for free to users, gets bug reports, and uses lessons learned to make their Enterprise offering more stable. If you look at the software versions in their enterprise offerings, almost nothing is even close to cutting edge, let alone bleeding edge. Red Hat has always seemed to take a stance of stability over new features, which is why you'll often see them freeze software at a certain version, then backport security/stability fixes from future versions. The only thing I see as noticibly changing is that Fedora seems to be focused on a little more cutting edge than RHL was. That and updates for RHL ceasing. Which kinda sucks because I now have to migrate a couple dozen servers from RHL 7.3. But hey, I'd say I got good use out of something that costed $0. RF _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
