[ale] [Fwd: [suse-oracle-announce] NOVELL: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux Technology Company SUSE LINUX]

[Christopher Fowler]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:46:52AM -0500, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Cory T. Echols wrote:
> 
> > On 11/04, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > In the beginning there was Slackware and a few others.  I guess  in
> > > the end they'll be Slackware and a few others.
> > 
> > While RedHat, SUSE and company are slowly turning away from the home
> > hacker market and focusing more on the 'enterprise', there is beginning
> > to be a quiet explosion in the non-commercial distribution scene.  In
> > addition to the venerable Slackware and Debian, there is crux, arch,
> > vector, gentoo, lunar, sourcemage, knoppix, gnoppix, morphix and more.
> > 
> > It may be a little sad that RedHat no longer markets itself to your home
> > desktop.  In the end, though, distributions shooting for more narrow
> > segments of the market, rather than trying to please everyone, is a very
> > good thing.
> 
> I'm a little confused as to why everything thinks Red Hat is not marketing 
> to home users. Red Hat has two product lines, RH Enterprise Linux (for, 
> well, enterprise users) and Fedora (for home, developers, hobbiests, etc.).

What about development workstations.  Should they run Fedora?
> 
> later,
> chris
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