RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?

[duncan brown]

www.fedora.us has a legacy program to release security only releases, no
other updates.  they're still supporting pre 8.0 releases.

-d

> Well, what does EOL really mean? It just means, that RH is no longer
> making new updates for things which might be broken or pose a security
> risk. If you do not care about those issues, I guess, it's pretty safe
> to  continue to use the product, until you come across something better
> suited. I have no plans of abandoning RH9 on my servers for now. If I
> see  something, I need to fix, because it potentially lets an intruder
> hack my  machine, I can always download the package source for XYZ
> distro, build my  own arch-dependant rpm and install that on all my
> servers.
> Some packages, such as PostgreSQL, PHP and Apache, I build from tar
> balls  anyway, since the current RH9 versions are ancient.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
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> "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
> Sent by: <fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com>
> 04/12/2004 02:58 PM
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> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Mark A. Hoover wrote:
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>> > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:24:16 -0600
>> > From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
>> >
>> > So you get essentially a free upgrade to the Enterprise line.
>> Whether
> or
>> > not you agree, it is at least clear that Red Hat attempted to
> compensate
>> > you (with something that they consider even better than what you
> already
>> > had) and did not try to "rip you off."
>>
>> While not the original poster, I would argue that depending on your
>> use
> of
>> RedHat 9 (or earlier) that RHWS is not an upgrade as the last time I
>> looked at the RHWS package list it did not include Apache, Bind, or
>> many of the other common server daemons.
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> Includes apache, sendmail, samba, nfs.  Does not include amanda-server,
> arptables_jf, bind, caching-nameserver, dhcp, freeradius, inews, inn,
> krb5-server, netdump-server, openldap-servers, pxe, quagga, radvd,
> rarpd, redhat-config-bind, redhat-config-netboot, tftp-server, tux,
> vsftpd, ypserv.
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> Some things are just plain gone (mailman, some *-devel packages, and
> some others), and some have been moved to the Extras channel (SQL
> servers, e.g.).
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> Most of the not-included ones are not really necessary for a workstation
> (although I'd miss bind and caching-nameserver on my laptop).
>
> If you want server capability and you don't want to pay RHES prices or
> get RHES service (and you're not an academic), then you want Fedora Core
> or Whitebox or one of the other RHEL clones.
>
> --
>                                  Matthew Saltzman
>
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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