On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 12:16, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote: > I know you guys have probably been pretty much fending off the naysayers > for the last couple of days who are predicting doom on Red Hat. I will >From what I have read from the FAQ and other posts. > 1. Will Red Hat be extending the EOL for any of its older products such > as RH 7.x and 8.x and will they allow any further renewal subscriptions to > services for these older products? > No. You can find third party companies who will do this though. > 2. Will Red Hat make boxed versions available of Fedora Core through the > online store or is there a plan to get a third party retail firm behind > it? Not at the present time if ever. It costs mucho money to push something with such a short shelf-life into the retail channel. You basically end up having to pay retailers to take it and thus you lose money. > > 3. Will Red Hat extend any kind of service agreements to users of Fedora > Core in a production environment who are subscribed to the RHEL services? > No. Red Hat isnt offering any support for Fedora, and only limited maintenance for it. > 4. Has anyone heard or talked to Sun about the status of Java support > extending to Fedora Core as they do through Red Hat 8.x and 9.x? > Nothing official. I am using the latest Java RPM on my RHEL beta box, and had no problems with it on Severn 1 when I was testing it. > 5. What will be the status of NVidia driver support for Fedora Core? > >From what I have heard it works for some cards.. not for others. Being binary only you get to deal with NVidia on all issues of getting it working. > Most of my clients need Java and the NVidia or ATI support and they do not > wish to subscribe to RHEL, most of them have inside Linux techs who do > most of the updates for them or for anything really intensive they call me > and my company. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Labrador CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 (note new #) Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --
