Red Hat is trying to sell it to the enterprise (read business with big
pockets.) That requires support, maintainability, etc. With the RHN they
are trying to get rid of the pain of updating os patches (anyone remember
dependency hell?).
They are also lining up ISV's, providing 5 years of support and all the
other things that business putting the OS into production care about.
-Scott
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Shawn Nguyen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I am new to this list and have just recently gotten back to Linux, it has changed quite a bit since two years ago, but I have a nagging question. I hope someone can answer this for me. I am a Debian guy since that is what I started out with when I started using Linux. Recently I tried to use Red Hat and I have to say that it's not like Debian and its more or less more corporate and a little hard to figure out because things are hidden. In any case I have gone back to Debian. My question is now that Red Hat has gone to the RHEL3 is it actually a release that they made on their own? I am thinking that its actually just a version of Linux that is just like any other version but that they are marketing it differently am I right? Please explain as I'm quite puzzled by what they are doing.
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> Shawn
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