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Paladin9

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« on: 26 February 2004, 04:28 »
could someone tell me what is going on with red hat? Why did they stop red hat? Is the fedora system sort of like red hat v10?
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« Reply #1 on: 26 February 2004, 05:25 »
Yes.

Red Hat stopped supporting their desktop software for their server software, they're going closed-source. Fedora is a project to steal coding from the linoox community and use it for their commercial success, but telling people it's a seperate project, or at least I suspect.

Fedora is cool, I installed it tonight and I'm still on it. I need to recompile the kernel, as the sound keeps going out, but otherwise it's respectable. And the fact that apt works with it, and it's the only distro I've tried that works with fluxbox, I'm keeping it for now.
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« Reply #2 on: 26 February 2004, 10:12 »
Errrrr...

I think of Fedora as the community Linux, which will be supported by the community.  Homebrewed patches and apps will get put in there by anyone who cares to contribute.  I don't think RedHat is going closed source, but they are probably going hi-price and hardcore.  Whatever.  It's an easy distro, and free.

Oh, Slackware + Fluxbox = hell yeah!
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« Reply #3 on: 26 February 2004, 15:28 »
Download Fedora now:

ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/fedora/core/1/i386/iso/ (download the i386 ones, not the SRPM ones).
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« Reply #4 on: 26 February 2004, 22:39 »
quote:
Originally posted by worker201:
I think of Fedora as the community Linux, which will be supported by the community.  Homebrewed patches and apps will get put in there by anyone who cares to contribute.  I don't think RedHat is going closed source, but they are probably going hi-price and hardcore.  Whatever.


Fedora is described as an all-free OS of both programming from the Linux community and RedHat people. RedHat itself is no longer free, which is why redhat is gay. Fedora is |..| that close to being the biggest POS OS every.

 
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It's an easy distro, and free.


You need a kernel upgrade, and THEN it's an easy distro.

 
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Originally posted by worker201:
Oh, Slackware + Fluxbox = hell yeah!


Agreed.  :cool:
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« Reply #5 on: 29 February 2004, 03:37 »
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Originally posted by restin256:
Yes.
Red Hat stopped supporting their desktop software for their server software, they're going closed-source.


They are not going closed-source.  They are just going to do very expensive server distros now.

Look at the "development model" row at
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/
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« Reply #6 on: 29 February 2004, 04:45 »
restin have you been hired as a Microsoft FUD operative?
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« Reply #7 on: 29 February 2004, 05:17 »
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Originally posted by M. O'Brien:


They are not going closed-source.  They are just going to do very expensive server distros now.

Look at the "development model" row at
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/


It's still a commercial distrobution now.

 
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restin have you been hired as a Microsoft FUD operative?


I a no good with youra english words.  :confused:
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« Reply #8 on: 29 February 2004, 05:53 »
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It's still a commercial distrobution now.


What's wrong with that? "Commerical" is not synonymous with "proprietary".
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« Reply #9 on: 29 February 2004, 21:45 »
Yeah, but somehow I don't see someone selling commercial software, but saying that the people can give it out as they wish at the same time.
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« Reply #10 on: 29 February 2004, 16:08 »
Why not? That's what they're doing (assuming RH Ent. is actually Free Software - I don't know whether it is or not). And they've always been a commercial free software distributor, they just happen to have put their distribution up for free download as well as selling it.
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« Reply #11 on: 1 March 2004, 04:41 »
Yeah, but they also stopped supporting their free software.

I need to take a nap.
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« Reply #12 on: 6 March 2004, 05:33 »
I used to be a diehard Redhat fan. Then they released Fedora. Nuff said. It sucks the shit out of my ass with a nuclear-powered vaccuum cleaner.
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« Reply #13 on: 6 March 2004, 05:36 »
you all have no clue
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