I saw a article the othe day that was an interview. Redhat have left the desktop market and slandered other distro's and told general uses to use MSWindows. I am no longer going to use redhat

I would like to know if other RH users are going to switch to another distro.
RedHat

why would i take the advice of a failing business anyway?




maybe less competition for other distros will result in higher quality through more standardization of other distros.

someone will take up the slack (no pun intended) in the market if they leave, and it won't be microsoft.

Yes, I started on RH and making the switch now. Leaning toward Slackware, but having an interesting time working on getting some things to work. It seems there are quite a few users out there, and I figure there must be a reason. This site leans more toward Slackware in terms of posting and ratings than any other distro.

I have a few other distros on the way, Fedora (although I doubt I use it) and Trustix, which is command-line onlyl, but is very fast and stable apparently.

I installed FreeBSD (unix though) and may go back and play with that one, as the install was very clean and I was up and running without having to do anything at all. Also, the ports from linux apparently are abundant. It is also supposed to have a nice update feature, which is one of the most important things for me, as I don't want to have to mess with hunting down updates all the time. Something croned to check once a day will work just fine for me.

Other than that, I am staying away from Suse, Mandrake, and Debian for different reasons, although they are supposed to be very user friendly, especially Mandrake (again, from what I hear).

Have a buddy from a forum, diywebserver.com, who swears by Trustix and has gained a convert or two so far. I will check that out, although I find no reason to go to a command-line only system for the sake of doing that alone, when I find nothing wrong with UIs. It's about balance, eh. Those who think the command line isn't it's own interface are just fooling themselves, imo (let's see if I get flamed for this comment). Although there surely is a lot more configurability and versatility from the command line (did I save myself there?).

I look forward to seeing what others have to say, and am very open for finding a good solution. I will be switching over a few systems...web, e-mail, dns mainly.

-joseph

There's another thread on this somewhere on LQ. Yeah... this happened a while ago actually.
I tend to use the commandline for most things. It's faster the the GUI and more flexible. Things like browsing I'd like to have X running with Mozilla, but lynx can do if needed. I'm not too proud to use the right tool for the right job.

hmmm....failing business?

Nothing like doubling one's money in a few months, eh!?!

And Microsoft keeps saying they're beefing up Security in Windows.. has that happened yet?

Redhat's move I think is smart, they are dropping what wasn't making them money and focusing on what is making them money.

Cheers.

In many message boards, duplicate threads are closed. This topic has been discussed before and is easily findable with the "search" function:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=116497

I gave up man, you know how many I've already moved and closed already....

LOL

Ya, I was thinking the same thing. I am moderator on a slower board, diywebserver.com, and wondered how you guys keep up with this one! It cooooooooks!

-joseph

Red Hat is not bailing on us. They are working on the Fedora project instead of Red Hat.

You guys are missing the point. It is all cool that red hat have stopped what is not making them money etc... But told users thinking of giving linux a go or Desktop uses to use MS Windows. While slandering other Dist's?

I read a story of an australian guy trying to return a copy of Windows to Toshiba Australia but MS has a contract with nearlly all computer dealers that forces a copy of a MS OS on the user. He read the MS OS contract on installing and if he refused it, he could return it to where he boaught his lap top (Toshiba Australia). Toshiba refused this as there is no refund for him. A long story short, after several attempts of contact he got $110 refund for his MSWin98 . But this is the company Red Hat is supporting now???? Why?

From what I have heard in here, majority of the people using Linux is because of the politics involved or they do not like the moral ethics of MS. Red Hat seem to be going the same way and I was just letting you know. Red hat will be removed from my company desktops and in time my server too. (because it has been running flawlessly for weeks)

Redhat said in their post that the reason people should use windoze rather than linux is mainly because of driver issues. I agree. <cower>:
The most expensive thing I ever bought was my brand new laptop.
ATI Radeon 9600
Intel P3 HT 3.06 Ghz.
all the gubbins.
DVD rewriter

The graphics card can run up to 2300x1500x32.
Linux supports up to 1024x768x24.

My processor is 3.06 ghz and hyperthreads.
Linux does not even recognise that it can do this.

My modem doesn't work.

I can't burn Anything rounded, forget about a DVDRW. How am i supposed to back up my hard disk?

My graphics card runs at the speed of my last graohics card: an onboard graphics card of no power whatsoever.
I bought a printer too. HP DJ 3650. There is no driver. Tried similar drivers, but they all print random ASCII characters.

Any proper C++ IDE's? No. GCC is great but command line programs went out of fasion in the early 90's.

So until I can actually use the hardware I paid so much for, Im sticking to Micro$oft Windoze. Linux is fine one older hardware, and im glad it provides an alternative to micro$oft Windoze servers, I think it doesn't stand a chance of becoming successful on the desktop market.
I only keep linux on my hard disk at all because I have not yet filled my NTFS partion with decent games, which won't run on Linux, because I like to play with UNIX prompts.

Sorry, I meant P4. P3 cannot HT. It mistakes my processor for a P3 not a P2; that woudl be really stupid.
i know why the modem doesn't work: its a piece of plastic with a few wires and a load of software built onto my motherboard, AKA the infamous Winmodem.