It shouldn't be such a shock to everyone that this is happening. I mean...you have to put yourself in Redhat's shoes. All of their resources were going to a product that was free. If you were a shareholder would this be acceptable to you? It is only natural for them to want to spend more of their resources on something that can make them money. I'm sure Mandrake and others are not too far behind in their plans as well. There are lots of distributions to choose from (There always will be). Just enjoy linux! If it wasn't for Redhat, linux wouldn't have evolved as quickly as it has. We should all be thankful for all of the development they did do. Maybe I am one of those rare positive thinkers.

Yeah! I have read that. I think it was both RH and IBM who recommeneded Windows to British Govt.

It is obvious that Suse was taking over RH throughout the world. So instead of supporting Linux (or letting Suse win over RH here aswell ) in general they decided to support Windows.

I've tried Fedora and it has a tendency to lock up for no reason. Also, it's so stripped down you can't do a lot of things you want to.

If you want to make a move to a new distro, go to Mandrake 9.1 (Not 9.2, the new version is not stable) or Gentoo 1.4 if you're really geeky.

Moebius,
I don't have a lot of experience with the Palms and RH but I can offer some help in general. What version of Linux are you using, what kind of Palm and which desktop environment is on your distro.

Also, what problems have you been having and what have you tried already?

:-)

Chris /dev/geek

Mobius,
Sorry about the Palm comment... was eally meant for Brother Michael.

Chris

I agree with everything you have said, Red Hat 7.1 was the first Linux OS I ran, now I am using FC1, that was after upgrading from 7.1 to 7.3 and from 7.3 to 9.0.... I have enjoyed using Red Hat, and so far I think FC1 is alot like Red Hat 9, so I shall be sticking with FC1..

Agreed......

....except for one thing. I think RH 7.3 was the best they made. RH8 and RH9 sucked. Fedora is just a joke.

So........wonder what they're gonna do with their RHCE cert? Wonder what (if anything) will change?

The thing that sux about Redhat is that every new version they move stuff around into different folders or change a command name or something. I had stuff in 7.3 that was moved to another location in 8.0 (like the default location for apache).

They suck

I know if that is all that true in everycase... most of the commands that I have used in Red Hat 9 work in FC1... like redhat-config-xfree86 for say..

I at one point said Red Hat forever, or couse I would be going into Red Hat enterprise.. but Fedora is close enough to Red Hat, in fact it even has the Red Hat on the bottom tool bar.. and as long has they keep making Fedora Linux I will be using it..

Fedora Forever!

I jsut installed Fedora on my Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop and so far it works well. It recognize most of the hardware (exept the modem). It recognize two pcmcia wireless network cards just plug and play. They didn't work with Madrake 9.1 at least not that easy. Is it a kernell version matter? Knoppix make the card work too.
So far I think Fedora looks good for a laptop. What distribution would you recommend to use for a laptop?

If you ask me I would stick with Fedora...

I have to disagree with you Fedora nay-sayers. This has to be the most stable straight forward distro I've used to date. Especially after I got this Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop that Dell claimed was "Linux compatable". This is the only os that I was actually able to get to work with my hardware. As for bugs, I've found many more bugs in Mandrake and Debian than I ever have here. In fact the only bug was Up2date not working properly which was fixed by a patch. You can use -yum AND -get on this distro. That leaves three very viable options for any user to update or install new packages. Anyways there are hundreds of sites and thousands of user forums to get support if you need it. In fact I'm trying to get a strictly Fedora support and RPM site up and going for everyone. So, in my opinion, for a first try (and hopefully just getting better from here) Fedora is an exceptional package..



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I am with you billy, I came from Red Hat, and Fedora for me has been very user friendly, I have had alot of luck with my hardware, I have alittle problems here and there with software, then again that is mostly user errors.