Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
I know you guys have probably been pretty much fending off the
naysayers
for the last couple of days who are predicting doom on Red Hat. I will
admit I dont agree with the route Red Hat has taken but I am going to give
Fedora Core a fair chance and I am not going to jump the gun and immediate
start suggesting SuSE Linux to my clients. I have a couple of questions
IBM distribution, aka SuSE, is free 'close sofware' plus some proprietary
sofware.
I dislike this. And:
"_At the moment_ we are maintaining SuSE Linux for 2 years - that means
Bug fixes and Security fixes will be released for two years for each SuSE
Linux version. Contrary to our business products with maintenance this is
_not_ guaranteed."
1. Will Red Hat be extending the EOL for any of its older products
such
as RH 7.x and 8.x and will they allow any further renewal subscriptions to
services for these older products?
NO.
Maybe an external team, community work, will work on it. No warranties.
2. Will Red Hat make boxed versions available of Fedora Core through
the
online store or is there a plan to get a third party retail firm behind
it?
NO. Only at the NET.
3. Will Red Hat extend any kind of service agreements to users of
Fedora
Core in a production environment who are subscribed to the RHEL services?
NO. There is not Red Hat support to Fedora.
4. Has anyone heard or talked to Sun about the status of Java
support
extending to Fedora Core as they do through Red Hat 8.x and 9.x?
Red Hat only certifies products in RHEL. Maybe the "putting
the bank in bankruptcy" guys are working to support Fedora.
I don't know. But if it works with 9 it should be work with Fedora, more or less.
5. What will be the status of NVidia driver support for Fedora
Core?
Most of my clients need Java and the NVidia or ATI support and they do not
if it is binary, forget it :
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73733
RH _only_ works with free software, and it's a good policy
wish to subscribe to RHEL, most of them have inside Linux techs who
do
most of the updates for them or for anything really intensive they call me
and my company.
If you *only* want updates, there is an option to purchase it without support.
RHEL ES $349 and RHEL WS $179.
to get more information take a look:
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/faq/
http://fedora.redhat.com/
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel
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