Red Hat to discontinue desktop support

[Nemesis11]

RED HAT has told its customers that it will no longer support a version of Linux for the desktop, signalling that it believes its enterprise products stand more chance of bringing in the shekels.

The firm emailed its customers yesterday, saying that it will discontinue maintenance and errata support for RHL 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 from December the 31st this year.

Support for RH Linux 9 will end on April 30th 2004, and the firm said it does not plan to introduce any more products in the Red Hat Linux line.

At the same time, RH said that it has a migration plan for network customers to move to Enterprise Linux V3.

Although some think that Red Hat might be shooting itself in the foot with the move, like we said we suspect that its close cooperation with IBM has helped it come to the decision.

And it's going to help the other Linux companies who are committed to desktop distributions.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12481



Espero que o Fedora continue.

EDIT: Parece que o Fedora passa a ser o "oficial". Um gesto a la Netscape, involvendo a comunidade.

As regards the Redhat desktop support, I believe a slight clarification might be needed.

First of all, the enterprise support package includes a desktop (Enterprise WS) package, presumably geared towards the enterprise desktop. At least this is the way it appears to me.

Second, Redhat has recently taken over the fedora.us website which previously devoted its efforts to publishing redhat specific packages providing software which redhat itself is reluctant to provide. An example of this is MP3 support. Fedora.us is being migrated to fedora.redhat.com, and this will be the new venue through which redhat will provide the public joe-user version of redhat. It is on this site, that the new release of the consumer desktop will be released and supported, although supported may be a bit of an overstatement, as they are pushing the concept of 'community supported', i.e. most likely meaning Redhat will devote only minimal efforts to develop this distribution...

Sincerley

Elmars O

 

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