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This is an asinine comment. RHEL and SLED are enterprise-geared distros and paid products.

• Piskvorrr 13y ago
  True. On the other hand, MS has to fear XP replacements which are not Windows, yet will run on the same old(er) HW that XP did; e.g. LXLE, which is geared specifically towards this goal: http://lxle.net/ http://lxle.net/
  • slantyyz 13y ago
    The biggest XP replacements that are not Windows are iPads and Android tablets -- at least for the majority of users who are primarily emailers and web surfers. Not sure if a free version of Windows is going to stop the bleeding there.
    • Piskvorrr 13y ago
      That's a good point as well.
• collyw 13y ago
  They both have community editions (Fedora, openSuse) and I was under the impression you were paying for support rather than the product. Plus the article talks about a free version, which would imply that the relationship is similar.
  • aroch 13y ago
    RHEL and SLED contain some things that their community editions don't and are updated and tested more carefully. But yes, you're also paying for support.
• nevi-me 13y ago
  Mavericks isn't, and Ubuntu/Mint isn't
  • aroch 13y ago
    Mavericks isn't really free -- you can't have it without the hardware to go with it and that hardware can be seen as a 'lifetime' license for OS X. Ubuntu has paid enterprise services: http://www.canonical.com/services http://www.canonical.com/services I don't think I've ever seen Mint deployed in an enterprise environment, at least not in a standard 'big business'