[H-GEN] replacement for RedHat9/KDE

[Robert Kearey]

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Russell Stuart wrote:

>>If there's any misconception in the HUMBUG community viz Red Hat's 
>>future "product" plans, please take the time to ask me anything which 
>>can help keep things clear.

> My understanding is that RedHat will be supporting two versions of
> Linux.  They are Fedora and RHEL. 

The tricky bit for a lot of people is the difference between "support" 
and "maintenance". Support, here, is defined as "You can ring up Red Hat 
and get issues tracked and resolved", whilst maintenance is defined as 
"errata etc". RHEL will be supported and maintained for up to five 
years, whilst fedora will be maintained for a nominal period.

> Fedora is free but will only be
> supported (in terms of security patches and bug fixes) for 9 months. 

Both Fedora and RHEL are free-as-in-speech, BTW.

[snip pricing - I'm not a salesperson, and don't pretend otherwise]

> What does Red Hat suggest?

Consider RHEL Proffesional Workstation. US$99 for a years support. For 
all other questions viz pricing, I'd reccomend talking to an Actual Red 
Hat Salesperson - the number's in the book :)

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