“Red Hat To Drop Linux !”
That’s the title i just read at LinuxWorld. Truly shocking don’t you think.
I just found myself lost for a moment, thinking: if a linux company drops linux, what the hell is it gonna do then ? Sell potatoes ??
Well, no, they’re gonna sell linux.
Ok ok, here’s the story, Red Hat are going to stop releasing their standard Red Hat Linux and supporting it, and instead will only focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
A logical step (for them), as that’s where they’re gonna be making more profit, BUT a bad step in my opinion.
Red Hat is the No.1 Linux distro, and if they discontinue their standard linux line, which is the most popular among users, and stop supporting it so quickly, linux might be losing all those users who believed in it and made the move from windows to linux, plus it’s not gonna sound good at all for people who were considering linux as a stable solution.
Oh well, i guess it’s just another example of a dumb decision taken after a long useless managerial meeting.
I can just imagine the guys at Microsoft toasting to this dumb move, lol…
*delurk*
Enterprise is going to become the “pay” version. I have no problem with that. It’s still way cheaper than Windows XP; not to mention that as a server platform Windows will never match up.
Fedora, the 100% open source distro (still sponsored by RedHat) will essentially become RedHat Linux 10. I definately don’t have a problem with that.
My concern is what happens in the time between Fedora being stable and usable and when support for RedHat 9 ends in April.
*relurk* 🙂
But with Red Hat now focusing on enterprise, and SuSE acquired by Novell meaning that it too will focus on enterprise, regular home users have lost the best 2 distros.
I know about the project Fedora but it’s not Red Hat and it’s still not as good, i don’t think someone who was using Red Hat or SuSE would move to that yet.
So basically less people will move to linux, and some people will even feel betrayed.
Plus i don’t agree with Red Hat that Linux is still not for the desktop, i think it has come a very long way and done very great things.
The only thing i still see as sticky in Linux for a desktop are drivers and all, a little more plug-and-play capabilites are needed. Other than that, i think Linux should be great for a desktop, in fact i’m counting on making my next pc run on linux.