[ale] Fedora and RHN?

[retief at larp.com (Jay Finch)]

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:49:56AM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
>> > Personally, I am now looking for a new *nix distro to run my servers
>> > on.  I've been a supporter of Redhat for my server solutions
>> > for a while
>> > now, but $179/year minimum is too rich for me, sad to say.
>> >
>>
>> Debian...
>
> Question.  How is Fedora Core 1 any different from, say, RedHat Linux 9?
>
> People are complaining about how Redhat isn't supporting non-enterprise
> users any more, bla bla bla.. but.. they didn't support Joe Random
> Downloader anyway.  If you wanted support from RH you had to pay for it
> before, be it in the form of a boxed set or a commercial/enterprise
> arrangement or whatever.
>
> If you were already paying RH money, you'll keep paying 'em money.  If
> you weren't paying 'em money before, you don't have to pay 'em a dime to
> continue receiving the same level of support they always provided -- ie,
> none.  In short, nothing has changed.
>
> What has changed from the user's perspective?  s/RedHat/Fedora/g
> That's it.

The biggest loss, in my opinion, is access to the RHN - I kept all my
packages updated using RHN, and that loss (since I use RH in production
servers) is the biggest blow to me.

Are there other programs out there that perform the same functions as RHN?
 I must confess I haven't looked very hard for them since RHN suited my
needs so perfectly.

Thanks!
Jay