Beta 8.10 released

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Art Alexion wrote:
> Billie, I think you are wrong as far as Cannonical is concerned.
>
> Cannonical does not produce a commercial version of ubuntu. Rather,  
> they make money mostly from enterprise support and providing some  
> commercial packages. You are partially right about Novell, though.  
> SLED is about one and a half steps behind opensuse. E.g., SLED 10.2  
> was released about six months after the release of opensuse 10.3.  
> RHEL, on the other hand, is a totally different distro from Fedora.  
> CentOS is the free version of RHEL, and as far as I know, follows  
> RHEL, instead of preceding it.
>
> Businesses buy RHEL instead of using the free and almost identical  
> CentOS is the commercial support.
>
> The other thing that the commercial Linux companies do is produce  
> custom apps and other customizations for their customers.
>
> So Cannonical does not sell a commercial Ubuntu. It sells support and  
> custom enhancements for the same version that you and I use. We are  
> not their "beta testers" in the way that opensuse users might be.
I stand corrected. At least partly.