Novell/progeny to take up redhat legacy services

[Mike Vanecek]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:44:38 -0800, Vincent wrote
> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/5137/1/
> 
> Novell/progeny will be offering pay-for support on the RHL 7.2 and 
> 7.3 line for $5 per machine, per month or $2,500 for unlimited 
> machines. Instead of re-inventing the wheel It's my opinion that the 
> contributers of this list concentrate on _only_ fedora-legacy and 
> not the RH 8.0 and 9.0 line.

I believe you may find several, including myself, that disagrees with that
position.

> The users in this category are 
> generally faster moving then the 7.2-7.3 folks who don't want to 
> touch their servers.

Not necessarily. I'd be happy to be on RH for the next 3 or 4 years.

> This would result an 'in between' user base 
> which is apparently what the fedora-legacy project was created to 
> accomplish. It would also benefit Redhat as to move them to the 
> 'testing' line and not leave users in the RHL line which does the 
> Company little good.

My concern is more oriented to my needs than those of Redhat.
> I apologize if this has been discussed in depth, I'm new to the list 
> and tried to read as much of the archives as I could before starting 
> a thread.

Indeed, it has.