> If you haven't heard the news, Red Hat will no longer provider errata > updates for RHL after April 30 next year. > > 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? > > 8) Something else
I'm a longtime RedHat user, but have been starting to move away for a different reason. I've tried other distros (Mandrake, Debian and Slackware), but have felt most at home with RH. However, being a fussy git and having taken an interest in trimmming down the bloat that's crept in, I've been driven to developing my own distro based on Linux From Scratch. Periodically discovering that rpm's database had gone and corrupted itself yet again was aggravating, but realising that RH wants all of OpenLDAP installed just to change passwords was the final straw. It's not easy, or quick, but will give me _precisely_ the system I want, with no extra trimmings. Plus, I'm developing a depth of system knowledge whose surface I'd barely scratched in 5 years as a user/tweaker. It helps that the machines in question are my own home boxes, with nobody else relying on them. Regards, James -- ...so there I am at ten thousand feet with a power drill in one hand, a takeaway menu in the other, no parachute and a _very_ suprised expression... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
