Re: Redhat seems to be out, looking for alternatives now

From: H. S. (g_reate_xcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:50:53 -0500

steve harris wrote:
> H. S. wrote:
>
>>
>> I have always used Redhat. I am currently using Redhat 8.0. But from
>> all this talk of "Redhat no more", I am seriously thinking about which
>> Linux to adopt next. It seems like that Fedora will not come with the
>> update options (similar to RHN). And since I don't want to live with
>> the uncertainity about what updates are available and I don't know
>> about, I guess I am thinking of shifting to some other flavor of
>> linux. Debian sounds nice, so does Suse. And there are many other
>> choices. I am dissappointed with Redhat, but they gota do what they
>> gota do, and I gota do what I gota do :)
>>
>> ->HS
>
>
> I use apt with the synaptic GUI to update RH9 without up2date.
>
>

But is the apt repository updated as actively as Redhat used to update
through their RHN? My impression is that this is not so, but I am open
to explanations; I might be wrong since I do not use apt and synaptic
very frequently.

->HS 

-- 
----------------------  X  ----------------------
Remove all underscores from my email address to get the correct one.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is to reduce spam.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS.
    ... > money to be a RHN member which they dropped shortly afterwards. ... > That is when I became angry and knew Linux was crap. ... > switched to Redhat and they discontinued supporting Redhat Linux 7.x. ... > Mozilla cannot find people to work for free on the 1.8 version. ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • Re: The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS.
    ... >> money to be a RHN member which they dropped shortly afterwards. ... >> That is when I became angry and knew Linux was crap. ... >> switched to Redhat and they discontinued supporting Redhat Linux 7.x. ... >> Mozilla cannot find people to work for free on the 1.8 version. ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • Re: OpenQM vs. Everything Else
    ... people who "support" Linux really only install stock distros. ... Debian is simply not drama queen. ... Linux or that of people like Martin, Doug, or other "engineer" types ... U2, RedHat and SuSE: ...
    (comp.databases.pick)
  • Re: OpenQM vs. Everything Else
    ... Linux or that of people like Martin, Doug, or other "engineer" types ... asked to work with an MV system over any distro except RedHat. ... And the only Linux distro mentioned on the QM download page is RedHat: ... hardware to test my clients' MondoRescue DVD's. ...
    (comp.databases.pick)
  • Re: RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?
    ... When I purchased Redhat 7.3 they sent me an email 2 weeks after I ... installer screen was offset on all of them. ... expect more from a "commercial" Linux distribution. ... I hope one day a Linux distro is actually that, ...
    (Fedora)