[Full-Disclosure] Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update andtransition planning

Ernie Cline ecline at lightspeedresearch.com
Tue Nov 4 21:01:01 GMT 2003


Gentoo Linux?  Its about as up to date as you can get!

-e

Alan Kloster wrote:
> And now that SUSE is being bought by Novell (with some $50 million
> infusion from IBM), how long do you think it will be before SUSE follows
> RH's lead.  Now IBM has RedHat, SUSE and Novell in their pockets and
> Microsoft has SCO.  My money is on IBM when the dust settles, but the
> simple fact is that there is money to be made.  The days of getting a
> constantly up-to-date Linux distro without having to pay through the
> nose for support are going the way of the Dodo.
> 
> Now when your boss asks you for justification on using Linux instead of
> M$ crap, what's your new response going to be?  Gartner's going to make
> a fortune on figuring all this out for those that can only make
> decisions from listening to them.
> 
> Theo rock on!
> 
> Alan
> 
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