[CLUE-Tech] Updating RH9

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:35, Kirk Rafferty wrote:

> As I see it, the writing is on the wall for hobbyists using Red Hat.  If
> hobbyists are not supporting Red Hat financially, then the day will come
> when even your gratis account is gone.  Eventually, they'll abandon the
> hobbyist distro for good.


Hi Kirk,

Not to start any arguments, but I disagree.  With the new Fedora Core, I
think Red Hat is doing a much better job of *embracing* hobbyists and
encouraging the community to grow.  Heres why:

  - the development process for Fedora Core is more becoming open 
    and responsive to user's requests, bug reports, fixes, etc.
    (join the mailing lists and see!)

  - the Fedora Core releases will be coming out a lot more frequently

  - Fedora Core is working towards having multiple different ways of 
    handling updates (up2date, yum, apt, "by-hand", ...) and doesn't 
    require any payments

  - theres even a Fedora Legacy group working to try to provide 
    updates and bug fixes as the Fedora Core releases age 

All of these things are new and growing so we'll have to wait to see how
they pan out.

And IMO, these things are *GOOD* for the hobby crowd -- those playing
with it for the thrill and love of it.

Ed

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