Original date: Thu Mar 25 20:31:34 EST 2004

Having been a long-term (see below) Red Hat Linux supporter, i read Bruce Perens' latest whitepaper with interest.  I am still a Red Hat Linux 9 user (since i can't get my ITE IT8212F RAID controller to work with Fedora Core 1), but Bruce's arguments about the "Enterprise Linux" movement are poignant.  I'm downloading the ISO now.  :-)

For the record, i've been using Linux since kernel version 0.97 (sometime in 1994?), and Red Hat Linux since version 4.2.  My first Linux distribution was SLS (Soft Landing System), followed by Slackware (3.2, i think), and then to Red Hat, with whom i've been to this day.