[Pc_Support] Generic Linux question ....

[Whaxiac Patrick]

On Monday 12 December 2005 11:10, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Whaxiac Patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > Some Proprietary versions that I have tried out: LinSpire,
> > Libranet, BearOps, Suse, Red Hat, Mandrake don't make the
> > grade for my personal preferences of what can be updated,
> > upgraded, quickly and with little conflict.
>
> Please don't label Red Hat as "proprietary."
>
> It is not in the least bit.  100% of what Red Hat does and
> releases is open source, an overwhelming majority is GPL --
> to an anal power.  Otherwise, projects like CentOS -- which
> is RHEL only without the Red Hat(R) trademarks, could not
> exist.
>
> As far as the inflexibility and rigid/fixed nature of Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux (RHEL), that's the technical design and
> focus of the product -- especially considering that Service
> Level Agreements (SLA) are the major driver.  You do _not_
> want to use it when you need flexibility, non-certified 3rd
> party apps, etc...
>
> As such, I suggest you not differentiate it as "proprietary"
> but another term -- such as "enterprise."
Egads, it's a jungle out there!  But, the definition smear could be attributed 
to the Microsoft FUD and Hyper marketing by the Microsoft Promotion team of 
big mouth Ballmer.  

The term Enterprise seems to be used flexibly by Microsoft in one instance, to 
define their attack on the server market, whilst being used to define all 
business usage on the other.

I did not mention, but, should, that I was running RedHat 9.0 when the free 
update and user networks were shut down with a short warning.  That served as 
a notice to the 'free' users, who were the beta test group for RH products, 
that we were no longer necessary to the great commercial enterprise that Red 
Hat wanted to become.  

A year later, Fedora Core was released.  But, once burned, twice shy.  
Thousands of beta testers/contributors to the RH bugtrack made the same 
decision.

I was already gone.  And, won't be back.  Too many other fantastic options, 
more closely suiting my personal needs in computers. 

But, thanks for your definitions, and the descriptions.




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