Red Hat Linux Support To End 1175
Orbital Sander writes "Received a missive this morning from the Red Hat Network, stating that they will discontinue maintenance on Red Hat Linux 7.x and 8.0 by the end of 2003, and on Red Hat 9.0 by the end of April, 2004. And, more ominously: 'Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line.' [The full text of the email is on Newsforge.] Kind of the end of an era, and the new king has already been appointed: Red Hat Linux is dead! Long live Red Hat Enterprise Linux! Looks like they realized that only their support contract-based version of the product was making them any money." Readers also note that Red Hat is pointing users to the free Fedora Project.
A sad day (Score:4, Funny)
Oh Noes (Score:2, Funny)
RedHat presents... (Score:5, Funny)
Probably not their best move to date.
It's not too late (Score:1, Funny)
Made SCO will pick up support... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:All we need now is (Score:5, Funny)
Is that going to be anything like the Open Source legal advice you get here on
geek#1: I have this rash on my ass and I can't find anything in the man, wiki or google about it. Anyone have an idea what this is and what I can do about it?
geek#2: IANAD but...
Where does this leave the "BSD is dead" trolls? (Score:1, Funny)
Excuse the wishful thinking...
Helevius
Ponderance (Score:1, Funny)
[[extends hand smiling]]
Anyone want a chocolate covered pretzel?
--RedShyat.BeeYotch
[eof]
Re:No more income from me then (Score:2, Funny)
Aren't you supposed to pay $699 for each box?
Re:Ob plug.. (Score:4, Funny)
Employee (chanting): Gentoo is faster than the other distributions because software is built and optimized for the computer that it will be run on. I have way more control of my system, as well. Gentoo marks the end to dependency hell because of it's superior package management system, portage. I will never use "b0rked" rpm again. Installing software is as easy as "emerge app," and all the dependencies are installed for me! I can update my entire system with one command, "emerge -u world."
PHB: What the hell are you talking about?
Other employees enter the office, all chanting in sync with eachother. They begin to slowly walk towards the PHB. PHB gets frightened.
All the employees (chanting): Gentoo is faster than the other distributions because software is built and optimized for the computer that it will be run on. I have way more control of my system, as well. Gentoo marks the end to dependency hell because of...
PHB: No, this isn't happening. NOOOOOOOOO!
Fadeout. Credits.
Re:A sad day (Score:1, Funny)