[CLUE-Talk] RH end-of-life

[BOF]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

>I'm doing a piece for LWN on the end-of-life for Red Hat Linux 
>"consumer" products. I'm kind of curious -- for the RH users on the
>list, are you planning on switching to Fedora, or to another Linux
>distro? What are your thoughts on the situation? Is this a smart move
>for RH, etc. 
>

I've been running the beta 3 of Fedora for almost a month now, and am 
very, very happy with it. It had the smoothest installation of any 
version of Linux I've yet installed: all my hardware was recognized and 
configured without problems, including my PDA and camera. This is a 
first for any flavor of Linux I've used. Thus far, it seems to do the 
job for me as a SOHO user very nicely. I plan on continuing to use it 
when the final version is released later this week.

I'm not sure of the wisdom of abandoning the Red Hat name as a tactic, 
but RH has indicated that they will continue to support the community 
using Fedora. There's been a lot of discussion in the Fedora mailing 
lists as to how well they will do this, but the feeling is that they 
will be using Fedora as the test bed for programs to be merged into 
their Enterprise version and so have a vested interest to support it 
well and keep it up to date with security patches.

If using Fedora falls through, then I will probably go to using RH 
Professional Workstation, which is the across-the-counter version of 
RHEL Workstation.

And if that doesn't work, I'll probably return to Slackware. Or maybe SuSE.

BOF