> If you haven't heard the news, Red Hat will no longer provider errata > updates for RHL after April 30 next year. (See > http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml ). (You'll have go > to RH Enterprise Linux for support from them) > > So a quick survey among Red Hat SLUGgers. I'm a long time RH user currently > with a few RH9 machines. So where are you going to go to? > > 1) Redhat Enterprise Linux? (and pay for the license and support) > 2) Fedora (the spin-off free/open community supported project from RHL)? > 3) Debian? > 4) Mandrake? > 5) Suse? > 6) Gentoo? > 7) Slackware? > 8) Something else?
Sounds like more hysteria... Myself, I have used rh for some time 10 year+ and have joined a legacy project to support redhat releases from 7.3 up for some time to come. This is of course the Fedora legacy project. Fedora does of course come with 9 months of updates free of charge. If that is not enough, you could choose another RedHat product. Option 1 here seems a good choice, but RHEL is not the only offering from redhat, I would suggest the author check redhat.com for other available products. If you have small servers, why not go with Professional Workstation (RHPW) The cost is what you pay already for a boxed set plus updates. seems reasonable to me. I dont think 9.0 will be my last redhat, oh, if you are using 9.0, run this... # /usr/libexec/redhat-credits I will do my bit to give the Fedora, and other releases, an extended life. You can of course, download the RHEL source and compile the thing yourself for free! Most of my workstations now have been moved to OSX 10.3 and I will keep my redhat machines for firewalling and devel, my main servers are moving to OpenBSD. I really dont see any need at all to switch from redhat for these. The same RH engineers responsible for sections of RHEL are responsible for those same section of Fedora. I really dont see what the drama is here. Kind regards Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
