Re: [governmentforge] The end of Red Hat support

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> All is not lost.  I finally got around to trying out Fedora which is the 
> unofficial and redhat sponsored support for non-Enterprise RedHat 
> servers now.  
> 
> I've heard about it before but never got around to installing it until 
> now.  You can find some really good how-to at Fedora Linux's original 
> webpage
> 
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
> http://www.fedora.us/index-main.html
> 
> It basically replaces RedHat's up2date, using apt and yum.   They are 
> very easy to use, fairly comprehensive if not as complete as RedHat 
> Network is.
> 
> Fedora got merged with RedHat pretty recently (http://www.fedora.us)
> 
> Here is RedHat's fedora website which is nice eyecandy but kinda useless.
> http://fedora.redhat.com/
> 
> Final piece of trivia... Fedora was founded by an undergrad at the 
> University of Hawaii in 2002.  Pretty amazing when I found out how young 
> this guy is.
> 
> Jon
> -------------------------------------
> Jonagustine Lim
> eGovernment Team Specialist
> State of Hawaii, DAGS/ICSD
> jon dot lim at hawaii dot gov
> 808-586-1920 x325
> 
>
We still lost a huge brand identity. All may not be lost, but for them 
to say that the desktop isn't ready lacks a measure of responsility.

Personally, I feel Matthew didn't do his homework. He should try Sun's 
desktop.