[plug] Red Hat ending it consumer distribution

[Bret Busby]

On 29 Dec 2003, Jon Miller wrote:

> 
> Please ignore last message(s) sent, for some reason these e-mails are
> just now being sent.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 19:44, Jon Miller wrote:
> > I would like to get members viewpoint on a trend I see developing and it
> > could spell the end to "free Open Source software" as Linux is moving
> > into the mainstream market and business starts adapting Linux, does this
> > mean that others will be following suit? 

I don't follow why any delay in the message being distributed, causes 
the request for ignorance of the invitation for opinions regarding the 
perceived developing trend regarding Linux distributions.

Does it mean that, while waiting to have your message above distributed, 
you had second thoughts, and got "cold feet" about your request for 
opinions about the perceived developing trend?

Anyway, I believe that the issue has previously been discussed on the 
list, in which, in referring to the intended ending of life-support 
by Red Hat, for RH 7.x this month, and RH 9 in April, I believe that I 
mentioned something like it apparently being time to turn to Debian 
Linux, if able to get around the apparently insurmountable installation 
system in Debian Linux. Whilst an improved installer appears to have 
been created for the testing version of Debian Linux, due to the mirrors 
having been down, it has been unavailable. It was hoped to be fixed up 
by the end of this month, but I am unsure of the progress.

An unfortunate thing, is that, due to the differences in distributions, 
things occur like a software package sold by Anne's employer, that is 
only supported on Red Hat and SUSE distributions of Linux. That is not 
to say that that application does not run on other distributions - it is 
known to run on Debian, for example - it is just not supported on other 
distributions.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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