On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 12:16, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
I know you guys have probably been pretty much fending off the naysayers for the last couple of days who are predicting doom on Red Hat. I will
From what I have read from the FAQ and other posts.
- Will Red Hat be extending the EOL for any of its older products such
as RH 7.x and 8.x and will they allow any further renewal subscriptions to services for these older products?
No. You can find third party companies who will do this though.
- Will Red Hat make boxed versions available of Fedora Core through the
online store or is there a plan to get a third party retail firm behind it?
Not at the present time if ever. It costs mucho money to push something with such a short shelf-life into the retail channel. You basically end up having to pay retailers to take it and thus you lose money.
- Will Red Hat extend any kind of service agreements to users of Fedora
Core in a production environment who are subscribed to the RHEL services?
No. Red Hat isnt offering any support for Fedora, and only limited maintenance for it.
- Has anyone heard or talked to Sun about the status of Java support
extending to Fedora Core as they do through Red Hat 8.x and 9.x?
Nothing official. I am using the latest Java RPM on my RHEL beta box, and had no problems with it on Severn 1 when I was testing it.
- What will be the status of NVidia driver support for Fedora Core?
From what I have heard it works for some cards.. not for others. Being
binary only you get to deal with NVidia on all issues of getting it working.
Most of my clients need Java and the NVidia or ATI support and they do not wish to subscribe to RHEL, most of them have inside Linux techs who do most of the updates for them or for anything really intensive they call me and my company.