Future of Red Hat: Fedora or Enterprise?

From: Paul Bramscher (brams006_nospam_at_tc.umn.edu)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:11:39 -0600

I'm ordinarily a SuSE person, although with SuSE also now corporate I
may as well look into Red Hat (or perhaps Debian, etc.). I've used Red
Hat on and off since 5.2 in the late 1990's, and run a server at work
with Red Hat 9.

Question: I'm curious what the hell Red Hat seems to be doing regarding
an affordable linux on the desktop for the core linux user demographic:
the home computer hobbyist.

Looks like our choice is either untested Fedora, a "legacy" RH9, or
dishing out $179 for the Enterprise version. None of these fits my
needs: I want a stable, free, and secure home/hobbyist OS.

Looks like SuSE remains the better choice among the corporate linuxes at
this point.

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