Dear All,
At the beginning of last week, the Linux news sites were all announcing such
news: SuSE is merging with Novell (or Novell has acquired SuSE :) ) and
RedHat is dropping the free version of Linux, BUT, will help the community
with Fedora (all the packages that will be released under Enterprise will be
first "checked" under Fedora). Just check for yourself linuxtoday.com or
slashdot.org and, because the news are a bit old, search for the topic. Not
to mention the involved companies' web-sites!
Anyway, as one news-reader was mentioning, there is not a (very) big problem
to keep your distro up-to-date, no matter which one are you using: get the
latest version of the interested app, unzip-it (untar, anyway), compile-it
and, voila! you have the update!!!
As regards which distro should one use, that depends on your taste (and
habit!). Myself, I have switched from RedHat since 7.x to Slackware (8/9).
Reasons: I install ONLY WHAT I WANT!!! No flame, but I do not like the
Windows way, that install whatever even if you don't want (no
dependencies!).
So, don't be disappointed about RedHat: one has to live and if that means to
switch the well-known from free (as in beer!) to money, so be-it! Adapt and
you'll do your job! Much more dangerous are the software patents!!
Best regards to everyone,
Valentin FRUNZA
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Linux is my choice! OpenOffice can help you too!
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