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Thread ID: 39395 2003-11-05 07:43:00 Red Hat pulls plugs on Red Hat Linux 45South (4769) Press F1
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189365 2003-11-05 07:43:00 Red Hat maintenance and support for Red Hat linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 will end as of 31st December 2003, and for Red Hat 9 as of 30th April 2004. "Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line," says the 'you're fired' email sent out to The Register's Red Hat Network account yesterday. Red Hat Linux channels will remain open for six months after the product's end of life date, but no new errata will be posted after EOL, and no Red Hat Network support accounts could be bought or renewed as of yesterday. So it's very dead, very soon, and Red Hat is now about Red Hat Enterprise and... Fedora.

More here:
www.theregister.co.uk
45South (4769)
189366 2003-11-05 08:13:00 >So it's very dead, very soon, and Red Hat is now about Red Hat Enterprise and . . . Fedora .

But as far as us open source enthusiasts go it is not dead - RH lives on in Fedora .

Have you seen the other big news of the day - Novell is to buy SuSE with a $50m backing from IMB - see . com . com/2100-7344-5101680 . html" target="_blank">news . com . com

John
JohnD (509)
189367 2003-11-05 08:15:00 As a current Red Hat user, I have been following the Red Hat - Fedora business with interest.

You can also get more information on Fedora from here:

Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/)

The following table compares The Fedora Project with: Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (fedora.redhat.com)

I will be going with Fedora shortly myself - it looks like it will be quite good :D
Jen C (20)
189368 2003-11-05 08:23:00 zdnet.com.com -=JM=- (16)
189369 2003-11-05 09:02:00 Interestingly enough, there is a Fedora folder at ftp://ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist - but it's empty. agent (30)
189370 2003-11-05 09:04:00 Fedora was going to be released on the 3rd November, but they have this to say under their schedule:

Fedora Core 1 / Cambridge
November 3 2003 - General Availability Delayed due to respin for several days, will be available as soon as possible.
Jen C (20)
189371 2003-11-05 09:57:00 And Novell has just brought SuSe (true) just received the email from Novell beama (111)
189372 2003-11-06 00:50:00 It's not dead. :D The software doesn't stop working, just because the manufacturer has withdrawn support. I've got W3.11, DR Dos 6, OS/2 Warp 3 and 4. :D I've even got (somewhere) a box which runs DOS which it boots from a ROM. I've got CP/M.

Who needs support? B-)
Graham L (2)
189373 2003-11-06 03:30:00 exactly: who needs support when you have press f1?

I must start download mandrake 9.2 again..........
ilikelinux (1418)
189374 2003-11-06 04:25:00 > It's not dead. :D The software doesn't stop working,
> just because the manufacturer has withdrawn support.
> I've got W3.11, DR Dos 6, OS/2 Warp 3 and 4. :D
> Who needs support? B-)

Snap!! Got my warp 4 on an 2000 APC mag CD, along with RH 6.2 and BeOS PE. Still looking for a box set of OS2 v4 cheap though;).
mark.p (383)
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