[ale] RHEL 5 is out

[Randy Ramsdell]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:47 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
>   
>> If you're not using it for commercial purposes you should be using the
>> non-commercial Fedora Core instead.
>> FC = Non-commercial sponsored by RedHat
>>     
>
> :-) Been there, FL too.
>
>   
>> RHEL = Commercially supported distro from RedHat  - FC essentially acts
>> as beta for this.   
>>     
>
> :-) Done that (still do @ $WORK)
>
>   
>> RHEL is typically a subset of the FC distro of the
>> same version (they only take what they want to support commercially).
>>     
>
> :-) I use to pay for RHL (note the absence of the 'E'), back when it
> simply was known by everyone as "RedHat".
>
>   
>> For commercial stuff I'll stick with RH over Suse since at least they
>> haven't sold out to M$.
>>     
>
> :-) I've sworn to never go with either of them personally.
>
> -Jim P.
>
>   
I just don't get the bias about Redhat. I have used them for years and
even before the v. 5. Yes, I was annoyed about the desktop EL thing
after v.9, but what did you expect. Redhat does more for the "Linux "
community than most will ever do is their lifetime. Respect that at
least.  Thank goodness they are here and I hope they stay for a long time.