Digital BW, The Print

Red Hat is no longer going to support the consumer version of their
Linux packages after April of next year. The enterprise version will
still be available at a significant Cost > $300.00 usd.

The howto for implementing QTR on a linux system was written
specifically for Red Hat. Migration to SuSE should be relatively
straight forward. Over the next couple of weeks the howto will be
re-written for one of the widely available Linux distributions, probably
SuSE but I am going to look at a couple of others as well.

Roger

Roger Sopher
rlsopher@...
http://deCorrales.com

> Red Hat is no longer going to support the consumer version of their
> Linux packages after April of next year. The enterprise version will
> still be available at a significant Cost > $300.00 usd.

All "free" software eventually moves in this direction, as companies
discover (or admit) that they cannot stay in business without charging
money for things--often lots of money.  Also, companies get more greedy
with time, so prices invariably rise.

FreeBSD is still free, but like all true versions of UNIX, it works
better as a server than as a pseudo-Windows desktop.

It might be premature to write off the red hat distribution. They seem 
to be spinning off development of the desktop version to the Fedora 
project--it looks a bit like the mozilla model.

fedora.redhat.com


--
Matt Haber
dance, portrait and fashion photography
http://www.matthaber.com

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Matt Haber" <matt@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Demise of Red Hat Linux


> It might be premature to write off the red hat distribution.
They seem
> to be spinning off development of the desktop version to the
Fedora
> project--it looks a bit like the mozilla model.
>
> fedora.redhat.com

Right and there are several other distributions that run on Red
Hat content. That will probably not change (in the expectation
that SCO is creating its own Baghdad :-) .  Now that Suse is
acquired by Novell it could become an expensive distribution too.

Ernst

Just some random thoughts...

The problem isn't the distro per se it is whether or not significant support
will be available for the newbie. A fair number of non-Linux experienced
folks have made inquiry about Linux and QTR and they are going to need some
degree of hand holding.

Fedora has promise but will, for the next six months or so be, imho,
disorganized and we don't know what form of beast it will be when it emerges
as a new entity. At this point their distro is a beta product.

I wasn't aware that Novell had bought SuSE. Given Novell's recent track
record and loss of market share that isn't the greatest of news either. SuSE
have already dropped downloading of their ISOs for 9.0 and have pretty much
forced one to buy the package. Not a big deal at forty bucks but still, a
big jump from free.

For the non Linux-ophile ease of installation, ease of package updating and
some form of support for arising problems is going to be critical if Linux
is going to be a reasonable route to using QTR. Having used Linux-QTR for
several weeks,  I can say that it is a killer combination and well worth the
effort to get it set up. On the other hand I suppose that one could always
pick up a used Mac and go that route but it would be substantially more
costly. For those experienced with Linux the choices of a distro are many
indeed.

At least for now, SuSE looks like a reasonable substitute for Red Hat since
it does meet those criteria and QTR installs and works nicely with it. If
they end up as an enterprise oriented player then that will possibly price
them out of the consumer game as well and one would have to look to
something else.

Roger

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Matt Haber [mailto:matt@...]
  Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:10 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Demise of Red Hat Linux


  It might be premature to write off the red hat distribution. They seem
  to be spinning off development of the desktop version to the Fedora
  project--it looks a bit like the mozilla model.

  fedora.redhat.com


  --
  Matt Haber
  dance, portrait and fashion photography
  http://www.matthaber.com


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