Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 11:03, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> RedHat's business model is moving toward support services for enterprises
> and away from sale of boxed sets of CDs. I don't think it makes much
> sense for them to continue work on the RedHat Linux distribution, but I
> can see why they might want to pretend to do so. Their corporate customers
> probably wouldn't notice if RedHat started loading Debian onto the
> corporate computers, so long as Red Hat, the company, continued to provide
> support.
>
> I think they would save themselves a lot of head aches if they did move to
> Debian. This collective support of the RedHat distribution, without selling
> CDs looks to me like Debian done badly. It will wither away, and the people
> will drift into the Debian community.
Just so long as RH apply their excellent installer to Debian ;)
cr
... having just recovered from another screaming encounter with dselect.
If I ever have to face that Debian installer again I'll... I'll...
... just let it do what it bloody well wants to and sort it all out later
with Kpackage, I think. :(
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