[ale] Simple Desktop Distro for Remote Windows user

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 14:22, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

> 
> Be aware, if you go the RH route, that RH 9 is the last version of RH as a 
> desktop release.  RH in the future will only be a mucho dinero enterprise 
> server version.  RH will be providing much of the personpower for the fedora 
> project.  Fedora will replace redhat.  It will be a completely free and open 
> desktop OS.  It is intended to be more cutting edge and less stable that the 
> costly RH releases.
A slight correction: there will continue to be a desktop version. It
will be geared more towards the corporate setting (stable, not a lot of
"extraneous" toys, fully supported, etc). It will cost around $150-$200.
There will also be the "community" version of RedHat, called fedora. It
will have a similar test/release cycle as the current RedHat 7.x, 8, and
9 series. It is essentially the testing ground for the enterprise
version of the desktop and server(s). There are currently plans for 3
series of servers, a "workgroup"/entry level ($800), a mid-sized series
"Advanced Server" (multi-processor, $1200) and monster machine,
"Enterprise Server" (8-way smp, fully HA capability, clustering, $2800).

They (the server series) will be all running the same basic code base
with some specialized kernel tweaks and compiled options in
applications. The workstation release is essentially the workgroup
server with no server applications (apache, bind, sendmail, etc).

They have not spoken much about RHN support for the Fedora series. I am
not expecting to see any.

With Suse going the same route to some extent (but they _are_ keeping
the personal version for at least one more release cycle) and Mandrake
still on the skids financially, the hobbyist Linux user is going to be
using Slackware and Debian. 

Slackware 9.1 runs faster on the same machine than RedHat 9.

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