AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Re: Subscription Farce - was Re: Wal-Mart Sells PCs With Sun          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java: Support and criticism View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Roedy Green's Uncle Feste Guest Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:46 am    Post subject: Re: Subscription Farce - was Re: Wal-Mart Sells PCs With Sun "Peter Köhlmann" <Peter.Koehlmann (AT) t-online (DOT) de> wrote Quote: Good for you. However, Red Hat has become one entity who has already started abusing this new business model. snip There will always be good, solid, free distros like Fedora, Gentoo, You are aware that Fedora *is* Red Hat? Yes but Fedora *does not* require subscription for updates. There are about fourty mirrors to choose from for Fedora updates, all are 100x faster than Red Hat's "demo" access. Red Hat has given Fedora to community development although they participate by contribution to test bleeding edge stuff. The end result is still a free solid distro. Quote: Why not? Why not what? Back to top Roedy Green's Uncle Feste Guest Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Subscription Farce - was Re: Wal-Mart Sells PCs With Sun "Peter Köhlmann" <Peter.Koehlmann (AT) t-online (DOT) de> wrote Quote: Roedy Green's Uncle Fester wrote: "Peter Köhlmann" <Peter.Koehlmann (AT) t-online (DOT) de> wrote in message news:c4fm94$7a4$04$3 (AT) news (DOT) t-online.com... Good for you. However, Red Hat has become one entity who has already started abusing this new business model. snip There will always be good, solid, free distros like Fedora, Gentoo, You are aware that Fedora *is* Red Hat? Yes but Fedora *does not* require subscription for updates. There are about fourty mirrors to choose from for Fedora updates, all are 100x faster than Red Hat's "demo" access. Red Hat has given Fedora to community development although they participate by contribution to test bleeding edge stuff. The end result is still a free solid distro. Why not? Why not what? Well, it sounds kind of stupid when you rant about RedHat and then compare them to fine, free distros like Fedora... I never made any negative comment as to the distro's quality. Red Hat makes good distros. Fedora follows that lineage. I dislike and disapprove of the new business model the company has chosen. On the other hand, there is always Whitebox, which is Red Hat ES 3 recompiled without the logos. If you're going to rag on everything derived from Red Hat, then you'd be discounting good distros like Mandrake, Yellow Dog, etc. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java: Support and criticism All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum Java Newsgroups----------------Java DiscussionsWeb-based java games comp.lang.java 3D Graphics API's for Java Java: Support and criticism Java System Announcements comp.lang.java.api JavaBeans Java and CORBA Java and Databases comp.lang.java.developer Java GUI Toolkits Java Help comp.lang.java.javascript JVM, native methods and hardware comp.lang.java.misc Java Language Programming Security and Java comp.lang.java.setup Java Software Tools comp.lang.java.tech ibm.software.java.linux  Non-English Java Newsgroups----------------Java Language (German)Language Java (Français)Java (Italian)  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.