[ale] RHEL 5 is out

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:47 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> If you're not using it for commercial purposes you should be using the
> non-commercial Fedora Core instead.
> FC = Non-commercial sponsored by RedHat

:-) Been there, FL too.

> RHEL = Commercially supported distro from RedHat  - FC essentially acts
> as beta for this.   

:-) Done that (still do @ $WORK)

> RHEL is typically a subset of the FC distro of the
> same version (they only take what they want to support commercially).

:-) I use to pay for RHL (note the absence of the 'E'), back when it
simply was known by everyone as "RedHat".

> For commercial stuff I'll stick with RH over Suse since at least they
> haven't sold out to M$.

:-) I've sworn to never go with either of them personally.

-Jim P.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Popovitch
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:21 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] RHEL 5 is out
> 
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:36 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > RHEL 5 is out and is not much of a surprise in terms of feature list.
> > It is more interesting to see the changes to the business Redhat does
> > as an FOSS service company.  
> 	
> 	"Subscribers are issued with installation keys that pre-
> 	define package manifests depending on the subscription 
> 	level."  <-- same old RedHat. ;-)
> 
> 
> -Jim P.
>