[Sheflug] Re: redhat 9.0

[Richard <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

>From the Sydney Linux User's Group LUG list......  just as an example.
All currency is in U.S dollars.... from....


Russell Ashdown <russell [at] ashdown.net.au>

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



So, time to look towards, Mandrake, Debian and Slackware once again ?
The stuff on the New York and Californian lists is pretty much the 
same.  They are all saying time to go elsewhere.  These are the 
developers who helped to write the software.

Thanks




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Richard
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