"Friedhelm" == Friedhelm Betz holliwell@gmx.net writes:
... Friedhelm> Maybe my question was a bit misleading, read as whats the Friedhelm> relation to the fedora project? I thought, RH will stop selling Friedhelm> boxes for end users, and now RHPW. Just this fact (stopping box Friedhelm> selling) is the reason for fedora. I am really confused about RH Friedhelm> product strategy.
You have the cause and affect mixed up. :-) The reason for Fedora is *not* to stop selling boxed products -- it is to allow open source development to proceed at its more normal (faster) pace. Tying open source development to a boxed product (which needs to have a certain shelf life) slowed things down.
We want to have boxed products available for retail sales. However, retailers do not like products that "go stale" within a few months (like Red Hat Linux). So, a boxed product based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux bits (which by definition change more slowly than Red Hat Linux did, and *much* more slowly than Fedora Core will) gives retailers a product they understand.
Friedhelm> And what about the Redhat Magazine?
What about it? It's a way for Red Hat to bring information (and interesting bits) to people on a regular basis. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ed