Hi, does anyone know what happened to RedHat?> Haven't used it for a while and it seems they are no more.
Yeah, they decided to stop giving away their operating system under the name RedHat. RH 9 is the last one. You can still purchase RedHat Enterprise, of course. They're not going out of business, just changing the way they do business. And since they are legally required to give it away in some form of another (it is a derivative work), they have created the Fedora project (http://fedora.redhat.com/). Apparently, reviews of the "Core 1", released just recently, where pretty weak.
Also, I run JVM and TC4 on RH7.1 kernel 2.4.2 and thinking about RH9, but someone said that's the last version and there won't be a *stability* version coming out after that.
You should upgrade to *anything* from RH 7.1. I assume that you have the "oops, we hosed glibc" RPM upgrade already. RH 7.1 was probably the worst release of RH ever. I've used 7.3 on many servers running Java/Tomcat apps, and it does just fine. RH 8 and RH 9 were pretty much desktop releases, designed to work with more hardware and have nicer GUIs. Assuming that you're running a server, there's very little difference between 7.3, 8.0, and 9. Of course, the newer ones have newer kernels, but in general you can upgrade those yourself.
Also, rumour has it RH8 is full of bugs?
This isn't my experience, but I don't use a lot of the stuff that comes with RH. Pretty much just the raw network stuff and bash. :)
One reason to go with RH 9 is the fact that it will be supported for a bit longer: RH 8.0 and earier will lose support (that is, RPM patches) on 31 December of this year. RH 9 will survive until April 2004.
Or, you could bail on RH and go with another Distro. Feel free to start a flame war by asking which one :)
-chris
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