Why don't people just stick with RH9 until support is pulled at the end of April. Let's see if the user community can step up to the plate RH abandoned, improving and supporting Fedora by that deadline. If not, then migrate.

someone said that debian has a new installer, that means that it's easier to install now? i hope so

Progeny have ported Red Hat's Anaconda installer to Debian. Knoppix works with Red Hat's kudzu hardware detector.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/0554215
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067056799.html

that means i'll just have to download the new debian install isos and will have the anaconda installer?

Are we sure that the RPMs are going to be discontinued from RH? Are the fedora RPMs going to be that different/incompatible?

Also there has been a lot of discussion about why they killed RH, let's not make any mistake, it was for money. No one was paying for support and they are a business. Now they are going to force a revision change and a support contract to make money. It's kind of hard to blame them for wanting to make a buck, but it sure sucks that they had to do it.

well you may be rigth , but still
I hope that redhat gets up and ontop again .

They will, but it will be in the enterprise market. We don't pay enough.

I got the feeling the fedora is going down, so far I have seen some fedora refugies , into other distros.

Where is that, for example? Are these the same people who run Red Hat Linux on servers and look for a free (as in "free beer") distribution with at least one year of errata support?

I've seen that Fedora Core has raised enough interest for Slackware and Gentoo users to try Red Hat's distribution for the first time.

After having some trouble getting Mandrake 9.2 to configure PHP and Apache to allow me to install Pear, I decided to try Fedora for a bit. I'm an absolute newbie, and just looking for something good to learn on, but also need a full functioning webserver for internal development purposes. So far, I'm happy. Granted, in the Linux realm I won't be a power user for some time to come, but I think Fedora could have some appeal.

The install hung on cd 3 the first go round, but went smoothly the second time, and all seems to be up and happy. Now just to learn how to configure the FTP, and all the directory permissions, and users/groups, so I can upload pages from my other box on the LAN.

The reason I did not stick with PH9 is I wanted to get used to Fedora.. instead of waiting till the last minute..

Hey folks,
I am a very new user to Linux. I am only a few steps higher than the standard idiot running around on the internet (actually I am probably better than I give myself credit for...) I am one of the few 19 year olds who knows what DOS is, and how to work it.

My biggest fault, is i don't understand math or programming. I am just not a math oriented person, and I probably never will be. In any case, I know nothing about what I am doing with shells and kernels, etc, etc, etc, BUT I have been able to use Linux. I have even been able to compile tar.gz's on my own. I have been using Fedora Core now for about 2-3 weeks, and I have had very little problems with it. The only real hardware issues I am having is with my Palm Pilot (if anyone can help me with this I would really appreciate it, I have asked and begged twice out here, and now one has been able to help me). The other hardware issue is my Soundcard. I have a Soundblaster Live! VALUE <---Keyword there... It is not supported by Linux period. There are no drivers for it on the Soundblaster site, the only option I have is to get a Sound Blaster Live! card.

The other is pretty minor as well, games are having some problems using my GeForce card.

As I said I am no super user, just a normal user with some knowledge, and I have had no more problems with Fedora Core than I did with Microsoft Windows XP.

Mike

there is not much difference between redhat fedora, just realeased and redhat 9

apart from the kernel was written by another company.

the looks arnt that far off either

Huh?

RedHat nor any Linux distro doesn't write their own kernel. They patch it with a few features that the kernel mentainers decided not to accept because of certain reasons.
If they did they wouldn't be Linux distros

They all start with a kernel from kernel.org