I've heard the news that RedHat was going to stop its free version some 3 months ago and IMMEDIATELY i switched to other alternatives - I tried FreeBSD which is amazing, but *BSD is not linux, so, although I liked the BSD, I preferred to stay with Linux. In fact I've chosen to switch to Debian. To date i'm a happy Debian user and i have the bleeding edge yet stable system everyday. I'm now a Debian die-hard and it will really has to happen something drastic to switch to another distro.
James. -- ___ __ | \ \ /| ___|_ | Linux user #324517 | _ \ | \/ | _| / james.myweblog.com |__|_/ _\_|_||_| ___|___| .:. aka MadviP .:. > 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 > > ************************************************ > Linux is my choice! OpenOffice can help you too! > ************************************************ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
