In a further move to alienate the majority of their users, not just the Red Hat CEO's dad, the most well known distributor of Linux, Red Hat Corp., has taken it's consumer based Linux, Red Hat Linux, off the shelf and not announced there is any planned replacement. I am saddened to see the one company who was making great advancements in user targeted Linux has now decided it will no longer do consumer Linux, and that those who have long been users of this brand of Linux are now being told that Linux is too difficult for them. If this was a business decision, I would say that they have made a big mistake. They have taken those who paid $100 a person to join the Red Hat Network and given them the finger. This will undoubtedly prove to be Red Hat's biggest mistake.
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Fedora has been released...
And, speaking as someone who has spent ~$1,500 on RHN so far, I'm not pissed.
I'm skeptical as to what will happen, my favourite part of Red Hat is that it's designed by people with a clue, rather than the masses. Time will tell.
Sean
This will be a great loss if Red Hat don't produce a replacement desktop Linux product. At one point, it looked to be the winning choice of Linux distro for Joe Average. I have installed and used several versions of Red Hat over the years and they have always left a good impression on me.
Still, I seriously hope that Novell take advantage of their recent aquistion of SuSE and do something serious with it - i.e. turn it into a desktop OS for the masses. They certainly lost the plot when they took over WordPerfect.
Well, if you've been keeping up with your /. (slashdot.org) you will note that Red Hat is trying to access a far more lucrative market for its products. Selling 100 copies of software for 100 bucks a pop doesn't make much money, even when they aren't paying for a cublicle farm larger than the city of Winnipeg. However, charging the Department of Defense $1500 per copy (or even $15) when they need several thousand copies, never mind the network servers, technical support, additional custom software etc, will make the company far more money. And lets face it, who gets into business to be a good samaritan?