Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-21 Thread Rick Forrister
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:25:47 -0400 Lorenzo Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the fact the RH is no longer going to produce boxed sets of RH CD's mean that > they will now offer their tech > support packages and pay-per-call tech suppor > t for downloading customets? A couple of weeks ago

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-21 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Does the fact the RH is no longer going to produce boxed sets of RH CD's mean that they will now offer their tech support packages and pay-per-call tech suppor t for downloading customets? A couple of weeks ago, I looked at redhat.com to see if I as a downloading customer could buy tech suppor

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-21 Thread Rick Forrister
On 20 Jul 2003 09:49:02 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 05:25, SAQIB wrote: > > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364 > > > > > > > > Saqib Ali > > - > > So in essence, does this mean that I'll no longer be able to

RE: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-21 Thread Chris W. Parker
Stephen Kuhn on Saturday, July 19, 2003 4:49 PM said: > So in essence, does this mean that I'll no longer be able to go to the > newsagents and purchase a RedHat distro? I'm on 56k - I'm not > downloading ISO's and it's rather arrogant for anyone to think that > ISO

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:15:14 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, SAQIB wrote: > > > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364 > > but the retail channel thing is not the real news. the real news

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-19 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:25:59PM -0700, SAQIB wrote: > > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364 There's a Slashdot discussion about this in which Alan Cox says a number of changes will be taking place, the first one of which will be announced on Monday. http://s

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-19 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 7/20/2003 09:49 +1000, you wrote: So in essence, does this mean that I'll no longer be able to go to the newsagents and purchase a RedHat distro? I'm on 56k - I'm not downloading ISO's and it's rather arrogant for anyone to think that ISO distribution caters completely to the public. No, it does

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 05:25, SAQIB wrote: > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364 > > > > Saqib Ali > - So in essence, does this mean that I'll no longer be able to go to the newsagents and purchase a RedHat distro? I'm on 56k - I'm not downloading ISO's

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-19 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 16:57, nuk wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > running a 2.6 pre-release kernel on top of a beta version of > > red hat. it just doesn't get any more exciting than that. > > Man, you *really* need to get out more ;) no kidding. But if he did, he w

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-19 Thread nuk
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > running a 2.6 pre-release kernel on top of a beta version of > red hat. it just doesn't get any more exciting than that. Man, you *really* need to get out more ;) nuk -- I know more than enough *nix to do some very destructive things, and not ne

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, SAQIB wrote: > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364 but the retail channel thing is not the real news. the real news is that the article gave away the codename of the next major release: "cambridge". combine that with a new, inaccessible be