[svlug] Red Hat pulls plugs on Red Hat Linux product line

[Gary Lin]

Has anyone actually tried Fedora? I am current running RH 9.0 as the 
cheap server solution for a non-profit organization (For web, email, 
DNS, Samba, SSHd, and etc).  I wonder what distribution I should use in 
the future so I don't have to actually pay for it?  Is Fedora a good 
choice?  I heard people were talking about gentoo.  Is that a good 
choice too?  I think I should start thinking about migrating my system 
before RedHat discontinue its support on April.  Any good suggestion?

-- Gary

David Hummel wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:14:16PM -0500, J C Lawrence wrote:
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>>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:10:30 -0800, David E Weekly <david at weekly.org>
>>wrote:
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>>>Kim, As far as I understand it, Fedora is a wholesale update of
>>>RedHat 9. It simply won't be available in boxes at Fry's and you
>>>can't buy support for it. There will be automatic updates,
>>>everything will still be RPM'ed, and it should be possible to
>>>upgrade to Fedora from previous versions of RedHat.
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>>In short, Fedora is an attempt to clone Debian without bothering to
>>pick up the design traits that make Debian so attractive and useful.
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>As I understand it so far, the Fedora project is not attempting to clone
>Debian, but rather to incorporate some of the best tools from Debian
>(apt, etc.), which seems like a good thing.  I'm not sure about the
>"design traits" you are referring to.  Hopefully it will be a
>best-of-both-worlds type of situation, which remains to be seen.
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>David Hummel
>Genomics & Gene Discovery
>WRRC/ARS/USDA
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