Red Hat Cans Linux Distribution: They’re ditching the consumer oriented version to focus on their enterprise customers. We should have seen this coming after they announced they were going to stop selling in retail outlets.
“Leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. on Monday made clear its intention to focus on the enterprise space, telling customers that it will no longer be maintaining or releasing any of the its Red Hat Linux line after the end of April 2004.”
Red Hat sews up Linux for hobbyists: We had talked before about Red Hat abandoning the consumer version of its product, but perhaps we jumped the gun. Red Hat will release the first version of its hobbyist edition of Linux on Thursday, a company executive said, as the software seller tries…
Linux and Main - Red Hat to abandon retail channel "Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday. ... The company's next major release, codenamed 'Cambridge,' will not be provided in boxed, retail form..."