On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Sorry if this has been discussed to death and I missed it but, now that
> RedHat have said that RH9 is the last non-enterprise RedHat Linux that
> they will be shipping (ie you have to pay if you want binaries) does
> anyone have a feeling for which linux Starlink will be targetting their
> binary distribution in the future? Fedora seems to be the obvious
> solution [www.fedora.us].
>
> We are interested since JAC have to make a decision at some point on which
> direction we are going with Linux OSes, so any thoughts from Starlink
> would be appreciated (we won't want to rebuild all the Starlink packages
> for example - I assume that LSB will help with that sort of thing though).
Hi Tim,
I don't know if there's been any internal discussion at RAL, but clearly
since people will need to pay for RHEL (or face building it from source,
themselves), that's unlikely to be a route that we could exclusively
support.
As far as I can tell (from Durham) most people are sleep-walking into this
change and waiting to see what happens under Fedora, the most crucial
parts being how much extra effort supporting a secure system without a
significant period of backported fixes will be.
Since the proposed release date for Fedora Core 1 is this week, I guess we
may have a better idea soon. For those of you that want a quick appraisal
of what this means see:
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html
Personally I'd like to see more binary releases by us (for Fedora, RHEL,
Debian, SuSE), and get out of the worrying about such things business.
Peter.
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