Re: <nettime> Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning (fwd)

[Benjamin Geer <ben {AT} socialtools.net>]

Alan Sondheim wrote:
> I find the following strangely disconcerting, as a major linux provider
> slides out from its customer base. For some this would indicate a growth
> and maturity of the community - for most of us, it already implies a
> problematic development of open source community.

It's just marketing.  If you like Red Hat Linux, you might like Fedora, 
'a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project':

http://fedora.redhat.com/

If you want a Linux distribution that's maintained by and for its 
community (complete with a constitution, a social contract, and voting 
on major issues), you might prefer Debian:

http://www.debian.org/

Ben

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