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Re: [ossig] Red Hat Drops Free Linux
And there's always Fedora. Betas are now mirrored at:
http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/redhat/linux/beta/severn/en/iso/i386/
and there should be a full release coming out soon, according to
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
Much discussion of this already at my-opensource.org mailing
list...
Imran
Ho Nee Shen wrote:
Red Hat Drops Free Linux
Customers asked to move to paid Enterprise Linux products.
David Legard, IDG News Service
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Prominent Linux vendor Red Hat is dropping its free Linux product
range and asking customers to migrate to its priced Enterprise Linux,
the company said Monday.
In a statement posted on its Web site
<http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/rhl/>, Red Hat said it will
end maintenance and errata support for Linux versions 7.1 through 8.0
on December 31, 2003, and for the most recent version 9 on April 30, 2004.
Red Hat Linux can still be downloaded free but the boxed versions that
were on sale for between $39.95 and $149.95 are no longer available.
No future versions will be developed, the company said.
Red Hat has characterized its free Linux product, which has been
available since 1994, as "a general purpose, low-cost solution that
... attempted to be all things to all people."
Certified Software
By contrast, Enterprise Linux
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113078,00.asp> has been
certified by a wide range of hardware and application software
vendors, Red Hat said.
The company is offering its users a choice between two upgrade paths,
either to the stable Enterprise Linux product which starts at $179, or
to its developer-oriented Fedora Project, which is available as a free
download.
The Enterprise Linux product comes in three versions: AS for large
corporate environments, ES for smaller offices, and WS for
workstation/desktop use. Each of these products is offered in basic,
standard, and premium editions depending on the level of support required.
The basic edition of Enterprise Linux WS costs $179, while the premium
edition of AS for IBM zSeries and S/390 costs $18,000, according to
Red Hat.
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Nee Shen
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