Red Hat has announced it will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1,
7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will also discontinue maintenance and errata
support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another
product in the Red Hat Linux line."
Instead, Red Hat will now sell the box-set of Red Hat Linux which now becomes "Red Hat
Enterprise Linux" in three flavours: "WS" (workstation, what we now use mostly), "ES" (the stuff
we use now on steroids), and "AS" (advanced server).
The Red Hat Linux we know and love will supposedly become "Fedora". But how Fedora is linked
to Red Hat Linux is another question. So far, all that I have read says that it will replace Red Hat's
RPM's. Linux is not mentioned.
The announced pricing is as follows:
RHLE WS (Linux 3) x86 basic $US179 standard $US299
Itanium,AMD64 ---
standard $US792
RHLE ES x86
basic $US349 standard $US799
RHLE AS x86
basic $US1499 premium $US2499
Itanium,AMD64,IBM basic $US1992 premium $US2998
IBM series basic $US15000 premium $US18000
-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
