Red Hat has decided to permanently discontinue development and support to the desktop version of its Linux distribution. Red Hat Linux. As of Dec. 31, the companies not provide maintenance or security patches for versions 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 8.0. The same applies to version 9.0, although as previous years. Also, the companies not produce a new version of Red Hat Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Instead, they focus exclusively on product development and distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux commercial. The information was provided by the companies own customers and users in a letter reproduced in an article in the publication News Forge. The news means that Red Hat Linux users should consider an alternative, because the program does not continue to be developed. The list of Linux distributions from LWN Net may be a good starting point. Another viable alternative is Fedora project announced recently by Red Hat itself. To a large extent, Fedora continues the Red Hat distribution now abandoned. Fedora is much more receptive to Red Hat for external developer’s contributions. The software will be distributed without any form of centralized support. The intentions are to publish two or three major upgrades of Fedora every year, apart from the regular updates.
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