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Re: [Saudi Linux] RH Linux became to an end!!

I wonder why arabeyes.org can't build their own
distribution of linux since they have done a great job
in arabizaion.

people of arabeye.org, I think you have start thinking
about that.


--- Isam Bayazidi <isam at bayazidi dot net> wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2003 02:29, Suliman A Alsamhan
> wrote:
> >  Alsalamo Alikom,
> 
> Wa Alaikom Al Salam
> 
> >  I think the hot news these days for Linux
> community is RH (RedHat) step.
> >  There is no longer free distribution of RH Linux.
> You need to buy it for
> >  either the desktops or servers.
> >
> >  Great, now, what is the deference between RH and
> M$ (Microsoft).
> 
> One of those companies provide Linux, and the other
> give Windows, and the 
> technical differences between the 2 systems are very
> clear to you I think, as 
> you are I linux user (I suppose). The story is about
> a Linux Company that 
> decided to stop their Freely downloadable
> distribution, and concentrate more 
> on their Enterprise solutions. The Freely
> Downloadable RedHat will be under 
> the name Fedora. So Fedora is RedHat without the
> RedHat name and support.
> 
> >  I know that some of you will talk a lot about the
> deference between open
> >  source and free stuff.  We still have the open
> source advantage but we
> >  lost the free of charge advantage.
> >
> >  And, some will say this is the greatness of open
> source, we do not stick
> >  with one company moves.
> >
> >  Really what we care about as Linux user??
> >
> >  For me, I care about the stability and security
> of the system. As we
> >  know, RH was one of the most stable
> distributions. The up2date tool was
> >  a great tool to use to update your system. Keep
> your system bugs free.
> >
> >  Now, where should we run to??
> >
> >  Debain, Suse, Fedora!!!
> 
> 
> Well, SuSE is as Free as RedHat as, and I mean here
> that SuSE do not provide a 
> Freely downloadable version of their distribution,
> and they have not done 
> that for years. Now as for the home user, I am not
> sure how much is the 
> choice of Linux is about saving money when you buy
> the system. So if we talk 
> about Free distributions we have: Debian, Gentoo,
> Slackware, Mandrake, and at 
> least 100 more. Now as for the commercial
> distributions, they always existed, 
> and they are not very expensive. For example the
> SuSE Linux 9 Personal is for 
> around 50$ I think, and it includes some 60 or 90
> days support. And you have 
> Lindows (which I personally hate), Xandros, yopper,
> and 10s more. The point 
> is that it is not a big deal for users I think that
> RedHat stopped their Free 
> distribution, and gave it under the Fedora project.
> 
> >  Or should we switch to *BSD stuff (FreeBSD,
> OpenBSD, or NetBSD)
> >
> >  I am thinking about my web servers, mail servers,
> IDS sensors, my own
> >  Desktop Laptop.
> >
> >  Will Fedora satisfy our needs?
> >  Will it be stable, solid, and secure??
> >
> >  Is it easy to get and install patches and new
> software??
> 
> I had not tried it yet, but from what I heard, it is
> a continuation for the 
> RedHat 7, 8, 9 series. So it can be thought of
> RedHat 10. Now as for the 
> security and stability that will probably be up to
> the user administration. 
> Fedora will provide the latest programs as RPM
> packages, if a user likes to 
> try every new release of a program such as (OpenSSH,
> Apache, Kernel, and so) 
> he will be facing some threat. So good system
> administration can make the 
> system secure. For those that does not know, if you
> spend alot of time and 
> effort, and put really good skills, you can even
> make Windows secure, believe 
> that is true. 
> 
> >  Personally, I think *BSD will be good replacement
> -if possible- for my
> >  critical mission systems.
> 
> BSDs are known to be really good for Servers, no one
> can argue with that. But 
> as for Home PCs users tend to like to have the
> latest of everything, Latest 
> of KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, K3B, OpenOffice and so, that
> to have that Linux is a 
> better option. 
> 
> 
> >  Lets see the future developments.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >  Suliman
> >
> >
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