On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
One would hope there is more room then that.
I am sure niche markets will mean there is. (like Embedix), but big players.. I am doubting it.
<snip> > What do you realistically think the alternative to FC was? I think it's > one you would like a lot less!
I don't know, but it certainly looks like I'll be find out. Since I was happy with the service RH was providing at $60 @ year, I was planning to stick to it and update my server from 7.3 to 9.1 (I got 9.0 and Severn running on other sytems) as EOL was coming up for support. I'll probably upgrade to 9.0 an wait and see what to do prior to my subscription expiring for RHN.
So when is the stable release of Fedora due out?
Yesterday, but from the release schedule page: "November 3 2003 - General Availability Delayed due to respin for several days, will be available as soon as possible."
Yeah, that doesn't answer my question though. =) Next Monday? Next month? Since Fedora is for home/hobby folks, could the announcement be worded a bit more in nontechnical terms? "Respin" is a new term for me, and I've been using RH since 6.x days.
Why not download it when it comes out,and take it for a spin? Just like 8 to 9, it's much the same, jet with a lot of nice little additons. The biggest thing you will notice is a massive search-and-replace of "red hat" to "fedora core". ;)
RHN is still there, and last i checked, you could still use it, you just have two new options. Everyone was installing apt and yum and using third party repositories anyway, redhat made things easier for home users by officially picking a repository, and building yum and apt support in. Now you can have all three protocols on one system.
Yeah, RHN is still there for me, but not for long. :\ Or is Fedora crew planning a RHN service replacement?