[Sussex] Red Hat and the future

[Geoff Teale]

Chaps,

OK, so some people are talking about Red Hat not releasing any more
versions of Red Hat Linux.  

Here the skinny:

There will be no more version of the traditional all-purpose Red Hat
distro that we all know.  Red Hat have come to the conclusion that they
only make money from value added services to businesses (i.e., there
isn't much money in selling people box-sets of free software with pretty
config tools).  

So, from now on you'll see business products (with hefty support
contracts) coming out of Red Hat, specifically what is now called "Red
Hat Enterprise Linux", and the traditional Red Hat consumer offerings
will be carried on by the fledgling Fedora Linux Project. 

Fedora will be a testing ground for Red Hat technology and will be free
to all comers.  Fedora versions will not map 1 to 1 with Red Hat
versions.

Fedora was historically a set of 3rd party RPMS for Red Hat, but will
now become a full blown distro in its own right following a "merger"
with Red Hat itself.

See here for details:

http://fedora.redhat.com/

-- 
Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation