No more free RedHat

3 Nov 2003

Today comes the official notice from RedHat that it is pulling out of the Free distribution business and focussing on its Enterprise market.

Their recent allignment with Fedora Linux project will no doubt be the future for the free RedHat in what seems to be a re-branding rather than a huge shift in their business. I have been a RedHat user since pre version 1 and this is a bit of a sad thing for me, but on the other hand I have become rather unimpressed with RedHat since the 6.2 days and later.

I have now installed a little working machine running Debian and am considering moving my single production Linux server to that rather than the current RedHat 7.2 which runs out of support end of December. I am hoping that before then the options from Fedora will become clear and I will be able to make a more educated decision, but for now I am all for Debian, it certainly seems nice and minimal while doing just what you ask it and no more.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Monday, November 3, 2003 at 10:23 PM

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So much for RHCEs

Colin Alston | January 24, 2004 2:39 PM | Reply

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